amycus carrow taught defense against the dark arts after snape.
amycus carrow taught defense against the dark arts after snape.
who teaches defense against the dark arts after snape?
amycus carrow
defence against the dark arts, commonly shortened to d.a.d.a., is the class that teaches students defensive techniques to defend against the dark arts, and to be protected from dark creatures. in "harry potter and the deathly hallows", with death-eaters in charge of the school, the subject is renamed the dark arts, and involves pupils practicing the cruciatus curse on those who have earned detentions. the subject has an extraordinarily high turnover of staff members—throughout the series no defence against the dark arts teacher has retained the post for more than one school year. harry is exceptionally skilled in this subject. during the period the story takes place, the class is taught by quirinus quirrell (book one), gilderoy lockhart (book two), remus lupin (book three), bartemius crouch jr impersonating alastor "mad-eye" moody (book four), dolores umbridge (book five), severus snape (book six), and amycus carrow (book seven). hagrid suggests in "harry potter and the chamber of secrets" that ""they're startin' ter think the job's jinxed. no one's lasted long for a while now."" in "half-blood prince", dumbledore suggests that voldemort cursed the position because his application for it was rejected. the existence of the jinx was eventually confirmed by rowling. the position had also been coveted by snape, but he was denied the position as well. snape was finally appointed d.a.d.a. professor in "half-blood prince". rowling announced in an interview that once voldemort had died, the jinx he placed on the office was lifted and a permanent professor had been teaching the subject between the end of "deathly hallows" and the epilogue, set nineteen years afterwards. furthermore, she imagines that harry potter occasionally comes to the class to give lectures on the subject.
magic in harry potter
all seven novels show snape to be a very powerful wizard and to have been outstanding while a student. he specialises in potion making and has talent and passion for the dark arts. sirius claimed that snape knew more hexes and curses as a first-year student at hogwarts than most seventh-years knew. particularly gifted in potion making, snape added major improvements to his potions textbook while still a student. also as a student, snape shows a rare gift for discovering new spells. lupin describes sectumsempra as snape's "speciality" in "deathly hallows." snape is shown using this spell as a teenager against harry's father james and in the aerial battle in the last novel when he accidentally hits george weasley (acting as a potter decoy) with it while actually aiming for a death eater who was trying to attack lupin, permanently severing george's right ear. despite sectumsempra's deadly power, snape can also heal the wounds it causes. snape is adept at reversing or containing potentially fatal damage from other dark curses as well, due to his vast knowledge of dark arts, as he does when dumbledore and then katie bell are cursed. skilful in the arts of legilimency and especially occlumency, snape is able to both access the minds of others and protect his own thoughts—indeed, though snape does not care for the term himself, harry forms the uncomfortable impression early in the series that the potions master is able to "read minds." being an occlumens, snape is able to keep his betrayal from voldemort, who is himself described as being "the greatest legilimens" in history. according to rowling, snape is the only death eater capable of producing a full patronus, which, like lily's, is a doe. snape is a talented duellist, able to hold off by himself (if only briefly) a group of three hogwarts professors that included former duelling champion filius flitwick. professor mcgonagall later implies that snape learned to fly without the use of a broom, a rare skill previously displayed only by voldemort.
severus snape