quirinus quirrell was the first defense against the dark arts teacher.
quirinus quirrell was the first defense against the dark arts teacher.
who was the first defense against the dark arts teacher?
quirinus quirrell
quirinus quirrell is the defence against the dark arts teacher at hogwarts during harry's first year and secretly a follower of voldemort. prior to his employment at hogwarts, he is said by hagrid to have had a "brilliant mind", and was a fine teacher while studying from books; some time before harry's arrival at hogwarts, "he took a year off to get some first-hand experience". rowling stated in a live web chat on 30 july 2007 that quirrell had worked at hogwarts as muggle studies teacher for a certain length of time, before taking the cursed defence against the dark arts position in the same year that harry joined. there were rumours that he encountered vampires in the black forest and one in romania, and he apparently had "a nasty bit of trouble with a hag". after that, he was 'never the same' – upon his return, he appears perpetually nervous and has developed a stutter and nervous tics and hagrid was able to say even before the beginning of the autumn term that he was "scared of the students, scared of his own subject". quirrell's attire includes a new purple turban which he claims to have received as a reward from an african prince for getting rid of a troublesome zombie. fred and george constantly joke that the turban was full of garlic to ward away vampires and in one part they even enchant snowballs to hit it. according to jk rowling, quirrell taught muggle studies before harry studied at hogwarts, which explains why he was a teacher before but at the same time only a defence against the dark arts teacher for one year.
hogwarts staff
bullet::::- alan rickman as severus snape, the former potions master, current defence against the dark arts teacher and head of slytherin.









































bullet::::- maggie smith as minerva mcgonagall, the hogwarts transfiguration teacher, deputy headmistress and head of gryffindor.









































bullet::::- timothy spall as peter pettigrew, the death eater who betrayed harry's parents to voldemort. pettigrew has no lines in this film, but appears as a servant at snape's house.









































bullet::::- david thewlis as remus lupin, a member of the order of the phoenix and harry's ex-defence against the dark arts teacher.
harry potter and the half-blood prince (film)