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.
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.