Alastor Moody Harry Potter Defense Against the Dark Arts
It's said that the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts is 'cursed'. For yr after twelvemonth, disaster after disaster, the job of Defence Against the Nighttime Arts professor has (generally) been filled by some of the worst candidates to ever grace a classroom.
But which i was the worst? Which Defence Confronting the Night Arts teacher fully lived up to the role's expletive, and should never be allowed near children ever again? And which ones were really alright?
Let'south rank them and observe out: from best to worst.
Remus Lupin (Prisoner of Azkaban)
Seeing as we're counting down to the worst Defence Confronting the Dark Arts teacher, nosotros're going to get-go with the best: Remus Lupin, a wizard whose bravery, kindness and patience fabricated him one of the finest professors at Hogwarts – and, as far as nosotros saw, the only decent one to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Lupin'southward classes were a fun and inventive jiff of fresh air; he taught the third years how to fight dark creatures such as Hinkypunks and Boggarts, and ready them a monster-filled obstacle course as an exam. Fun! And then there was his dedication to Harry Potter, who he taught in private to cast the Patronus Charm. But, of course, in that location was no escaping the job's expletive; Lupin was revealed as a werewolf and resigned the position earlier the influx of owls from outraged parents flooded in. An irony, given some of their childrens' other Defense Against the Dark Arts professors...
Severus Snape (Half-Blood Prince)
Equally revealed at the end of Deathly Hallows, Professor Snape was secretly one of the bravest and most noble men Harry ever knew. But that doesn't mean that he was the most breezy and easy-going of teachers.
We all saw how he was in Potions, subsequently all, so there's just Snape's personality in general. In fact, Dumbledore held off giving him the job for so many years thinking information technology would bring out the worst in him – you know, all that company he kept with Dark wizards.
But in comparison to some of Harry'due south other teachers, Snape was at the very least dedicated, firm and very qualified. Well, maybe a niggling too qualified, judging by his first lesson speech calling the Dark Arts 'unfixed, mutating, indestructible'. Calm down, Snape.
Still, in a year where Voldemort was on the ascent – who amend than Voldemort'southward very ain double-spy to teach the class? It could've been a good gig for Snape, if only he hadn't had that pesky Unforgiveable Vow promising to impale his boss…
Gilderoy Lockhart (Bedchamber of Secrets)
Gilderoy Lockhart wasn't an evil magician, only he wasn't a particularly good one either. For not only was he a raging con-artist, a 'hero' who had congenital his reputation on fraud and lies, just he was dangerous too, willing to become to desperate lengths to protect his fame. (Well, when he could actually get a spell right, that was.)
Naturally, given that he was a adventurer, Lockhart's fourth dimension as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher was an incompetent butchery – one in which the grade learned more virtually him than the Dark Arts.
Take his first class, for example, which kicked off with a quiz virtually himself, right before he let loose a cage of Cornish Pixies on innocent children. After this niggling false pas, the rest of term would consist of reading from his own books, and re-enacting them with the (reluctant) help of Harry. In fact, by the stop of the year the course had hardly learned annihilation well-nigh bodily defence force, which kind of raises questions about Dumbledore's decision to hire him – a bid, perhaps, to expose his fraudulence? Just what kind of school is this?
Mad-Center Moody/Barty Hunker Jr (Goblet of Fire)
The strange thing about Alastor Moody (or rather, Barty Crouch Jr pretending to be Alastor Moody) is that he was actually a rather informative Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
A footling bold perchance (he did, afterwards all, demonstrate the Unforgivable Curses in his very first lesson), but he was besides an engrossing speaker, and certainly taught Harry and his classmates a matter or two. It's but a shame that he was only pretending; that his eagerness to aid Harry was but part of a scheme to rig the Triwizard Tournament. Still, if yous take away all the connectedness-to-Voldemort stuff, perhaps it was a practiced impression of what a real Mad-Center Defence Confronting the Dark class would really be similar.
'Constant vigilance' is too practiced a catchphrase to simply make up.
Amycus Carrow (Deathly Hallows)
There's not much that we know virtually Amycus Carrow'southward time as Defense force Against the Nighttime Arts instructor (he took over while Harry, Ron and Hermione were off searching for Horcruxes), merely what we do know is that it was terrifying.
For a start, he was a Death Eater – 1 who took over the job subsequently Voldemort's conquest of the Ministry of Magic. And, from what Neville Longbottom told Harry, he was a rather sadistic one; having not only turned Defence Against the Nighttime Arts into merely Nighttime Arts, simply enforcing subject through the Cruciatus Curse. As Neville said, his punishments made Dolores Umbridge 'look tame'.
Dolores Umbridge (Order of the Phoenix)
As Defence Against the Nighttime Arts teacher, Professor Umbridge managed to vacuum up all the useful parts of Harry'southward lessons by thrusting the students' noses in textbooks instead of action, denying the render of Lord Voldemort and, perhaps worst of all, punctuating every sentence with a cutesy giggle.
Her saccharine and sugary ways were more arguably more brutal than the Carrows' tenure, and it wasn't long before her girly pinkish robes and dear of cats made mode for a sinister, truly evil piece of work; doing everything in her power to stifle Harry and his friends from defending themselves confronting the darkening world. Without even raising her wand, Dolores Umbridge'south never-catastrophe Educational Decrees and her quite literally scarring detention sessions with Harry have earned her a very well-deserved title of the second-worst Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Professor Quirrell (Philosopher's Rock)
Although Professor Quirrell seemed quite harmless at first, what with his nervous tics and his turban, we do have one very modest reason why Quirrell might be the worst of the bunch.
This was non because of his slightly jumpy demeanour, or his classrooms e'er smelling of garlic or the fact he seemed to be scared of absolutely everything, but because he literally had Lord Voldemort on the back of his caput. Yep, he had one of the Darkest wizards in wizarding history on the back of his head. And nosotros feel it'due south fair to say that having Lord Voldemort on the dorsum of your head may just exist the worst way possible to teach Defense Against the Night Arts. Always.
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Source: https://www.wizardingworld.com/features/ranked-the-defence-against-the-dark-arts-teachers
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