In canon, IIRC, LV actually did want to become a Hogwarts teacher.
Regarding personality shifts; is it possible that this is another point of departure, and we’re looking at a LV who made fewer Horcruces? Again IIRC, there seemed to be a linear relationship depicted in canon between Tom Riddle’s physical and mental decay and the number he created.
I read it as stating that there was a curse, and everybody had noticed it, and acted accordingly (McGonagall trying to keep Quirrel through the entire year, Quirrel refusing to stay the next year.)
Ah! That makes more sense. I was reading it as “were there a curse, and everybody had noticed it, it would be god-damned fixed by now to avoid having to pay every DADA professor a zillion Galleons of danger money”.
Right, the issue is that JKR didn’t seem to notice that there was a curse when she was writing the first book or so, and so it was made more explicit earlier in MoR.
In canon, IIRC, LV actually did want to become a Hogwarts teacher.
Regarding personality shifts; is it possible that this is another point of departure, and we’re looking at a LV who made fewer Horcruces? Again IIRC, there seemed to be a linear relationship depicted in canon between Tom Riddle’s physical and mental decay and the number he created.
Correct—that’s the source of the supposed curse on the Defense position.
Albeit I understood EY’s latest Author’s Note to be saying that there was no curse on DADA in MoR canon. Is that a misreading?
I read it as stating that there was a curse, and everybody had noticed it, and acted accordingly (McGonagall trying to keep Quirrel through the entire year, Quirrel refusing to stay the next year.)
Ah! That makes more sense. I was reading it as “were there a curse, and everybody had noticed it, it would be god-damned fixed by now to avoid having to pay every DADA professor a zillion Galleons of danger money”.
Right, the issue is that JKR didn’t seem to notice that there was a curse when she was writing the first book or so, and so it was made more explicit earlier in MoR.