#dada professors

[psychoblaster]

Quirrellhart sketches (kinda inspired by @sidelit’s fics, go read them everyone!)

[isopod-nicopod]

Drawing every other character except Harry 😭

@sigma-skibidi-alpha (cause I know you love Quirrell 🥹✌️)

[kahuna-burger]

Okay, get this, not only is AO3 down, but both of my preferred time wasting tablet games have decided to go into an inexplicable constant crash. So clearly, I have no choice but to look at my WIPs and post bits to beg for validation. Here's Percy Weasley leading a student interview of Prof Lupin because he's tired of waiting to find out what's wrong with the DADA professor THIS YEAR.

Remus had organized his syllabus papers for each year and was shelving his few well bound books when there was a knock on the partially open door of his new office. “Come in,” he called, hoping for the Headmaster and dreading Severus.

Rather than either, a small group of students crowded in the doorway, upperclassmen by his estimate, though they all looked terribly young to him. “Excuse us, Professor,” the tall, redheaded young man at the front began, “but we were hoping for a few minutes of your time.” He had a polite but firm tone that sounded more like a Ministry official announcing himself than a student making a true request. On a second glance, both he and the blond Ravenclaw beside him had the distinctive badges of the Head Boy and Girl, so he supposed a certain level of confidence wasn't completely misplaced.

“Certainly, come in. As you probably heard at the feast, I'm Remus Lupin.”

“Percival Weasley,” the Gryffindor shook his hand firmly but not aggressively and gestured to the rest of the group which gathered around his desk. “Head Girl Penelope Clearwater and Prefects Farley and Diggory.” Remus briefly shook each student’s hand, noting that all the houses were represented for whatever kind of meeting this was. A much smaller girl not quite in Ravenclaw uniform also stepped up but didn't extend her hand. “And Miss Lovegood,” Percival added in a tone of fond forbearance.

“It's good to meet all of you,” Remus said as warmly as possible. “What exactly can I do for you this evening?”

After a quick exchange of glances, Miss Clearwater took the lead. “Well, Professor, I suppose to save time, we should just start out by asking… Are you aware that the position that you have taken this year is cursed?”

A surprised bark of laughter escaped him before he could reestablish a bit of decorum. “We said that even back when I was a student here. It's still an, err, non tenured position, I take it?”

Mr Weasley nodded seriously, even as the Hufflepuff prefect snickered at the description. “Yes sir, new one every year.”

“Hrm, well, I doubt it required a full delegation just to warn me, so what is that the build up to?” Clearwater and Diggory blushed slightly and glanced away, while the Head Boy and Slytherin prefect seemed to be assessing him. Miss Lovegood, he couldn't help but notice, was smiling gently while looking at him in a not quite focused way. He wondered if the group had found the girl along the way and brought her along to keep an eye on her so close to curfew.

“Well sir,” the Head Boy said seriously, “whether it's an additional effect of the curse or just the result of constantly running through candidates, the fact is that DADA professors for the last decade have been either ill suited to teach or in some fashion unsavory.”

“Or both,” Miss Farley put in under her breath and the other three nodded or shrugged in acceptance.

“Or both. After the last two not only endangered the school through incompetence but actively attacked younger students,” Remus gasped in a probably unprofessional fashion, but Dumbledore hadn't told him things were THAT dire, “We decided that the risks of assessing things over the first few weeks were greater than the awkwardness of an, er, informal interview to see how we should advise our houses.”

“Ah.” He gave himself a moment by summoning and transfiguring extra chairs for everyone. “Why don't we have a seat? What sort of advice have you had to give?” He found the tin of biscuits Professor McGonagall had given him as a welcome gift and opened them as everyone settled in.

“Oh you know,” Miss Clearwater said with a nervous smile, “Supplemental readings, study groups with older students or self study in some severe cases…”

“Not allowing anyone to serve detention alone with a few,” the Weasley boy added. “Arriving and leaving as a group.”

Mr. Diggory nodded. “Sheltering a particular student who is being targeted, sometimes.”

“Murder.” The flat suggestion came, unsurprisingly, from the Slytherin prefect. Miss Clearwater and Mr. Diggory choked slightly while Mr. Weasley merely pushed his glasses down to massage the bridge of his nose.

“Professor Malenkoff was not MURDERED, Gemma, no one has been, or is going to be murdered.” He gave Remus an apologetic smile and explained, “There was an incident with a professor making inappropriate advances towards students. He hanged himself when the Headmaster was called to escort in the Aurors who had arrived at the gates.”

Over Miss Farley's skeptical grumbling, Remus coughed twice and said, “I… Well. Tea?”

[andrea-davison-writes]

Option 3 for the question thing, could you please rank defence teachers at Hogwarts 😊 so Quirrel, Lockheart, Remus, Moody/Crouch, Umbridge (that's 5 but feel free to add Snape in there if you'd like!) thank you 💜

Thanks for the ask, @mxstyassasxin! So many things to consider here! Are we going by likability or effectiveness as a teacher? Gah! I'mjust going to go for it 😉

Remus Lupin - 110% this man was born to teach and actually cared about his students. His lesson plans were well thought out and engaging. He would be getting an top marks on RateMyProfessor.com

Barty Crouch Jr (polyjuiced as Moody) - Alright, this fucker was NOT a good person by any means, but he was a good teacher. He actually prepared the students for what they would be facing from Death Eaters and taught them how to fight off the Imperius. Had he not gone bad (honestly, I'm very interested in his story was he originally innocent of his crimes and then radicalised by the cruelty of his father? Was he always faithful to Voldy?) I think that he would have been an excellent teacher.

Severus Snape - Snape could have been an excellent teacher. I really believe that. But we only see him through Harry's bias and are therefore only treated to his negative qualities. And, to be frank, he has quite a few. He scared and tormented at least several students. He openly disliked others and was rather unfair. However, he knew his shit and he improved on techniques found in the textbooks. I think that he would have been a great professor for upper-level students or post-Hogwarts study, but teaching obviously wasn't his passion.

Quirinus Quirrel - This was a tough one. We actually don't know a lot about his teaching style or if he was any good at it. However, as a seemingly non-self-absorbed Ravenclaw, I get the feeling that he actually cared about the knowledge he was imparting. But the whole accepting Voldy to live on the back of his skull as a parasite... Ew.

Gilderoy Lockhart - This dude is a plagiarizing buffoon who can go suck a dick. He had no idea what he was doing, forced the kids to purchase too many of his own textbooks, and actively put Harry and Ron (and potentially the rest of the students) in mortal peril.

Dolores Umbridge - Look, I do not say this lightly. I don't like using this word for other women but... What A Cunt! She literally forced students to self-mutilate. She didn't teach. She gaslit students anf staff. This woman was the true villain of the series.

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You didn’t really describe the new DADA teacher, what’s he/she like?

I have to admit I cheated on that one and gave it very little thought. Though I did feel like it couldn’t possibly be that phenomenal of a professor? I mean, then Dumbledore would have used them before, right? I think Minerva probably went safe and was like, “Okay, someone who is not evil, who is not a ministry tool, someone who isn’t going to torture the students or bully them.” And Merriweather is not exactly the most qualified? (Wouldn’t most qualified dark arts defense people have either died in the war or be involved in ministry stuff at this point? I’m thinking there’s a pretty big shortage.) But Merriweather is fair, and capable of teaching basic defense at least, and reading a textbook and asking for advice, and Minerva knows that at this point with the DA, the students will fill in on their own. (Most of them already know more than they ever should have needed to on the subject.) Rebuilding trust with a professor and with the classroom was deemed more important. It’s time for harmony at Hogwarts as best they can manage it.

[anxiouslyironomen]

Do y'all know that one song that goes "what we really need is a futhermucking hero" it is What the World Needs is People Like Me from Ride the Cyclone because I now picture this with the Hogwarts DADA professors.

He'll never learn to read: Lockhart

He's never gonna breed: Quirrell

Going to jail guarranteed: Barry Crouch Jr.

She's a freaky monster: Umbridge

I'm the solution: Lupin

Another alternate one is when Snape applies for the job again in Harry's 5th year and these are his reasons.

He'll never learn to read: Lockhart

He's never gonna breed: Quirrell

Going to jail guarranteed: Barry Crouch Jr

She's a freaky monster: Lupin

I'm the solution: Snape

[thefantastickatinator]

DADA professors did not do well

At the end of the seventh book

Four are dead (Quirrell, Lupin, Crouch, Snape)

Two are in Azkaban (Umbridge, Carrow)

One has permanent memory damage (Lockhart)

[marzaid]

this fic i'm reading made Tonks the DADA professor in Harry's 5th year because it's an au and i'm freaking out cause of what always happens to the DADA professors :( no not Tonks don't make me cry tears of blood