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Why Didnt Dumbledore Let Snape Teach Defense Against the Dark Arts

Defence Against the Dark Arts (abbreviated as DADA) was a subject taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[13] In this class, students studied and learnt how to defend themselves confronting all aspects of the Nighttime Arts, including dark creatures,[21] [24] [25] curses, hexes and jinxes (dark charms),[22] and duelling.[twenty]

The form was a core bailiwick at Hogwarts.[26] The position of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at the school was in one case rumoured to be jinxed, every bit no teacher could hold the post for more a year without suffering an unpleasant fate. Tom Riddle jinxed the position considering Albus Dumbledore did not give him the chore when he applied for information technology.[2] The fact that no teacher has lasted longer than a year meant that the subject had numerous Professors over the years.[twenty]

Ilvermorny began teaching the subject in the 17th century.[13] Harry Potter would occasionally deliver Defence Against the Dark Arts lectures at Hogwarts in his adulthood.[27]

Contents

  • ane Class information
  • ii Location and fourth dimension
    • 2.1 Classrooms
    • two.two Lesson times
  • 3 Curriculum
    • iii.one Starting time year
      • 3.1.one Nighttime creatures
      • 3.1.2 Spells
    • 3.ii Second year
      • 3.two.1 Dark creatures
      • three.2.2 Spells
    • 3.3 Third year
      • 3.3.1 Nighttime creatures
      • 3.iii.two Spells
    • three.4 Fourth twelvemonth
      • iii.4.1 Nighttime creatures
      • three.iv.two Spells
    • three.5 5th yr
      • 3.five.one 1988–1989 school twelvemonth
        • iii.5.i.one Night creatures
        • three.v.1.2 Spells
      • three.5.ii 1995–1996 school twelvemonth
        • 3.5.2.1 Dark creatures
        • three.5.2.2 Spells
    • 3.vi 6th year
      • 3.6.1 Official curriculum
        • 3.6.1.1 Dark creatures
        • iii.half dozen.1.two Spells
      • 3.6.2 Bill Weasley's extracurricular classes
        • iii.6.2.1 Nighttime creatures
        • 3.6.2.2 Spells
    • iii.7 Seventh yr
      • 3.vii.i Bill Weasley'southward extracurricular classes
        • 3.7.i.1 Nighttime creatures
        • 3.vii.one.two Spells
  • 4 Known professors
    • iv.1 Hogwarts Schoolhouse of Witchcraft and Wizardry
    • 4.2 Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
  • 5 Required textbooks
  • 6 Grades
    • 6.1 Passing grades
    • six.2 Fail grades
  • seven Known O.W.Fifty.s
  • 8 Behind the scenes
  • 9 Appearances
  • 10 Notes and references

Grade data

"The Dark Arts, are many, varied, always-irresolute, and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a caput even fiercer and cleverer than before. Yous are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible. Your defences must therefore exist as flexible and inventive as the arts you seek to undo."
— Professor Snape discussing Defence Against the Dark Arts during a sixth twelvemonth lesson in 1996[src]

Defence Against the Nighttime Arts was a required field of study from starting time twelvemonth to fifth twelvemonth.[26] [18] The curriculum of the course varied greatly depending on what the professor at the time deemed appropriate. Due to the jinx on the teaching post that was present earlier Lord Voldemort died, many teachers had been appointed to this post.[ii]

A tertiary twelvemonth practical test, an obstacle course

Tom Riddle twice applied for the Defence Confronting the Dark Arts position, the first time shortly after graduation from Hogwarts when he was turned down by Headmaster Armando Dippet, who claimed he was as well immature merely invited him to re-apply a few years later.

Many years later, after becoming steeped in the Nighttime Arts and starting to use the title "Lord Voldemort", he visited the school and applied again, this time to Dumbledore. He was refused again. According to Albus Dumbledore, subsequently the second refusal, no Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher held the post for more than than one school year. Dumbledore believed that this was due to Voldemort placing a jinx on the position, a belief that was popularly spread throughout the school.[2]

1994 Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson on the Unforgivable Curses

The lessons generally had a applied approach, with the cases of competent teachers believing that when information technology came to the Dark Arts a practical approach was the best way,[21] [22] [xx] with theoretical assignments given equally homework.[28] Inadequate teachers, such every bit Quirinus Quirrell and Dolores Umbridge, who were focused on theories solitary, hampered the learning of defences as they would non be providing students any applied experiences.[18] [29]

In the fifth year, Ordinary Wizarding Level examinations were taken; as such, students spent their time learning new topics and possibly revisiting the past four years of lessons (depending on the teacher). As part of their Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L., students had to sit a written test ane of the questions asks to describe the five signs of a werewolf[thirty] and after students must complete a practical exam of; counter-jinxes, defensive spells, the Boggart-Banishing Spell, and the Patronus Charm (for bonus points).[31]

To advance to the N.E.Due west.T. class, a student had to first achieve a high O.W.L. score of either "Outstanding" or "Exceeds Expectations"; virtually teachers set the bar at "Exceeds Expectations".[32]

Also, due to the course being directly related to the Dark Arts itself, Dark Wizards who wished to teach would typically apply for this course, notably being Tom Riddle,[2] Patricia Rakepick,[33] Quirinus Quirrell,[34] Bartemius Crouch Inferior,[7] Dolores Umbridge,[35] Severus Snape[9] and Amycus Carrow.[36]

Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle were two known students who failed their O.W.L.s in Defense Against the Night Arts, for which the following twelvemonth'due south respective instructor, Snape, gave them both detentions.[37]

The Defence Confronting the Dark Arts teacher was likewise responsible for dealing with whatever Nighttime Arts related activities that threaten the school and its residents, equally Harry and Ron expected Lockhart to enter the Bedroom of Secrets and protested against his excuse of leaving under an unavoidable urgent call in 1993,[38] while Snape was assigned to staunch the mortiferous curse that afflicted Katie Bell in 1996.[39]

Location and time

Classrooms

Defence Against the Night Arts classes took place on the first-floor, Grade 104 in the North Tower and Classroom 3C on the 3rd-floor. In Classroom 3C, an iron chandelier hung from the ceiling, as well every bit a dragon's skeleton.[xiv] On i end of the classroom stood a projector that was activated by magic. Several desks and tables could exist establish in the classroom as well every bit some sets of big windows.[17]

Lesson times

Twelvemonth Day Flow
First Monday second
Second 4th
Thursday first
Midweek fourth
Third Monday 5th
Thursday fourth
Friday 3rd
Fourth Thursday 4th/fifth
5th Monday fifth/sixth
Friday sixth
Sixth Monday morning time
Seventh unknown unknown

Curriculum

"You accept had five teachers in this subject so far, I believe. Naturally, these teachers will all have had their ain methods and priorities. Given this defoliation I am surprised and then many of you lot scraped an O.W.L. in this subject. I shall be even more surprised if all of you manage to keep upwards with N.Due east.Due west.T. work, which will be much more than advanced."
— Professor Snape on the curriculum's instability[src]

Due to the constant changing of teachers until the jinx created by Voldemort was cleaved, the curriculum of Defence force Against the Night Arts varied from year to year.[xx] [2] Each teacher had their own priorities and way of didactics, and their own corresponding efficiency proportional to his or her beliefs and methods,[20] such every bit Quirinus Quirrell and Dolores Umbridge assertive that theories were enough (which were, in fact, more than hindering),[29] while the more effective Remus Lupin,[21] Bartemius Hunker Junior[22] (then bearded equally Alastor Moody with Polyjuice Potion)[7] and Severus Snape[twenty] had a more balanced belief in theory and applied defence.

Sixth-years were supposed to be given demonstrations on what illegal curses looked similar; it was only in the 1994–1995 schoolhouse year that this was changed to the quaternary year.[22]

Earlier teachers from the 1985–1986 school yr for case, were considered highly incompetent and ineffective by most students, and as such, very rarely showed upward to teach.[40] [41] [42] [43]

Patricia Rakepick teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts to fifth-years

During the 1988–1989 schoolhouse year, the renowned Curse-Billow Patricia Rakepick was appointed as the Defense Confronting the Dark Arts teacher for that academic year.[3] She proved herself to be a highly effective teacher of both defensive and offensive magic, having taught her students a wide diversity of fascinating and useful topics during her lessons, to compensate her students for having learnt almost zilch in previous years. She even gave her select students private lessons in the bailiwick, teaching them how to duel, in training for locating the Cursed Vaults throughout the Castle.[three] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56]

Nib Weasley teaching a group of 6th-years DADA in the evening

During the 1989–1990 schoolhouse yr, Bill Weasley was given permission past Albus Dumbledore to teach actress-curricular evening classes in this subject to students after graduating the school, due to the ineffectiveness of the teaching that year.[57] He continued instruction these lessons in the 1990–1991 school year as well.[58]

Quirrell pedagogy Defense force Against the Dark Arts

In the 1991–1992 schoolhouse year, Quirinus Quirrell taught mainly theoretical knowledge,[59] which, four years afterward, the Ministry deemed he was the just teacher before Dolores Umbridge to be of acceptable standards. Withal, the Ministry at the time was decadent and paranoid, thus their evaluation of Quirrell's effectiveness was inaccurate.[29] In fact, while he was a studious intellectual, his practical aspect was severely hampered past his timid and stuttering nature, leading him unable to teach properly, which caused many students consider his classes to be a joke, and failed to accept him seriously.[26] [59]

Lockhart "teaching" Defence Confronting the Dark Arts

In the 1992–1993 school year, Gilderoy Lockhart, fraudulent and incompetent, taught aught to the classes of his respective tenure, aside from nonsensical and unrelated materials, considering that he was hired solely past Albus Dumbledore for the purpose of ousting him equally a fraud to the globe.[60] His lectures were but storytelling and theatrical re-enactments from his books, since his kickoff practical lesson ended in a disaster that he failed to incorporate (involving alive "freshly caught" Cornish Pixies),[23] and his idea of homework was for the course to compose a poem of one of his declared achievements with the offer of a signed copy of his autobiography to the all-time composer.[61]

Lockhart simply using the course to promote his uninformative publications, Ron Weasley claimed that the merely thing he learned from it was "non to ready pixies loose", and expressed his desire to drop out of the course mainly of Lockhart'due south incompetence.[62] In late 1992, Lockhart also established a very soon lived and unsuccessful Duelling Club with the help of Severus Snape, in an attempt to teach students how to defend themselves; the social club only had one coming together which resulted in consummate anarchy.[63]

Lupin instruction Defence Against the Dark Arts

In the 1993–1994 school year, Professor Lupin was among the most effective teachers to have taught, equally many students nether his tutelage agreed upon. He taught practical aspects during the lectures, even bringing in several dark creatures in captivity equally visual aids, and assigned theoretical aspects for homework. He was likewise charismatic, earning the respect of his students, and therefore, making them want to learn from him.[21] [24] [25] Lupin too gave his favourite student Harry Potter boosted lessons in how to perform the Patronus Charm, so he could learn to gainsay Dementors.[64] Hermione Granger claimed he was the merely teacher among their v (at the time) who knew what he was doing.

"Moody" demonstrating the Killing Curse on a spider during a fourth-year lesson

In the 1994–1995 school year, Bartemius Crouch Inferior, and so disguised as Alastor Moody using Polyjuice Potion,[7] believed firmly in a practical approach. As such, he taught the fourth-year class on the Unforgivable Curses that were commonly reserved for the sixth year, believing they need to see it sooner.[22] He fifty-fifty performed the Imperius Curse on all the students as a means to teach them how to resist it.[65] Although the students found him to be one of the about constructive instructors (despite his true identity afterward beingness revealed to be a criminal), the Ministry found the lessons to be very controversial, and expressed their strong disapproval.[18]

During the 1995–1996 schoolhouse yr, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, had deluded himself with the bizarre conspiracy theory that Headmaster Albus Dumbledore was using the students to create a private army of immature witches and wizards to overthrow the Ministry building.[66] As such, he implanted Dolores Umbridge to become the teacher of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classes, which he believed to be the master source of preparation (e.thousand. defensive spells) for Dumbledore's would-exist soldiers.[18]

Umbridge "teaching" Defence Against the Dark Arts

Umbridge supplied a syllabus based entirely on the theory of conflict rather facing them, all of which was simply reading out of the textbook, believing that this would be sufficient in passing the examinations. Furthermore, she herself did non teach the students, every bit she had them read the textbooks quietly in class and refused to answer their questions any more to silence them.[xviii] [29] This misguided conventionalities deprived the students on any useful lessons as even the theories are inaccurate, thus leading to the germination on Dumbledore's Ground forces, which taught more practical defense that students from all grades found more than useful.[67] Umbridge would afterward claim that the spells Harry taught were accounted by the Ministry inappropriate for students at their ages.[68]

In the 1996–1997 school twelvemonth, Professor Snape taught his classes to respect the Dark Arts equally a dangerous and ever-evolving opponent, and that their defences must be as versatile as the foul arts they seek to disengage. He imposed a darker atmosphere in the classroom by dimmer lighting and macabre portraits in guild to let the students to accept a firmer understanding of the sufferings the Dark Arts tin bring. Hermione ended that Snape's ideals were very much the same as what Harry Potter expressed during the Dumbledore's Army recruitment meeting: not simply memorising a bunch of spells, but to understand and react appropriately to the situation at manus.[20] Every bit with Lupin and Crouch, Snape taught practically during the lectures, and assigned theories for homework.

As with every other course that required practical spells, sixth-years were taught nonverbal spell usage,[20] and were expected to use them in class from then on.[69]

In the 1997–1998 school year, the class was changed to Dark Arts during Voldemort's takeover of the school. It was taught by the Death Eater Amycus Carrow, who taught students how to perform the Unforgivable Curses, with a particular emphasis with ordering students to do the Cruciatus Curse on ill-behaved students,[36] along with the summoning of Fiendfyre.[70]

First year

"The class everyone had really been looking forward to was Defence force Confronting the Dark Arts, simply Quirrell's lessons turned out to be a scrap of a joke. His classroom smelled strongly of garlic, which anybody said was to ward off a vampire he'd met in Romania and was afraid would be coming back to get him one of these days."
— DADA lessons with Quirrell equally the professor[src]

2d year

"Now — be warned! It is my job to arm you against the foulest creatures known to wizardkind! You may observe yourselves facing your worst fears in this room. Know simply that no harm can befall you lot whilst I am here. All I ask is that you remain calm. I must ask you not to scream. Information technology might provoke them."
— Lockhart introducing Cornish Pixies[src]

Third year

"Professor Lupin had complied the well-nigh unusual exam any of them had ever taken; a sort of obstacle course outside in the sun, where they had to wade across a deep paddling pool containing a Grindylow, cross a serial of potholes full of Scarlet Caps, squish their manner beyond a patch of marsh while ignoring misleading directions from a Hinkypunk, then climb into an former torso and battle with a new Boggart."
— The tertiary year Defence force Against the Night Arts test in 1994[src]

Students during the 1993–1994 school twelvemonth, under the significantly loftier quality of instruction under Remus Lupin, learnt well-nigh numerous night creatures and how to handle them accordingly.[21] [24] [25] [77] [78]

Fourth year

"And then — straight into information technology. Curses. They come in many strengths and forms. Now, co-ordinate to the Ministry building of Magic, I'm supposed to teach you countercurses and leave information technology at that. I'grand not supposed to show you what illegal Dark curses look like until y'all're in the sixth yr. You lot're not supposed to be old enough to deal with it till then. Simply Professor Dumbledore's got a higher opinion of your nerves, he reckons you can cope, and I say, the sooner you know what you're up confronting, the ameliorate."
— Barty Crouch Jnr (disguised equally Alastor Moody) on his approach of the subject[src]

Students witnessed the three Unforgivable Curses used on spiders.[22] They were as well given lessons on resisting the Imperius Curse, in which Harry Potter was the only one successful in his class.[65] These demonstrations were during the 1994-1995 school year but and the Unforgivable Curses are commonly covered in the sixth year N.E.West.T. class.[22]

5th twelvemonth

1988–1989 school twelvemonth

"I am not only going to show yous how to defend yourselves against the Dark Arts, only how to assault the Dark Arts. You will receive the finest didactics from someone who has actually faced the worst that the Dark Arts has to offer. They say this position is cursed, but breaking curses is what I do all-time."
— Patricia Rakepick'south approach to teaching the subject[src]

Patricia Rakepick was the Professor in this field of study for the 1988–1989 school year, in which she taught her fifth twelvemonth students a broad multitude of highly interesting and useful topics, carefully balancing both theoretical and practical knowledge and skills.

1995–1996 school year

"Well now, your teaching in this subject has been rather disrupted and fragmented, hasn't it? The constant changing of teachers, many of whom do non seem to accept followed any Ministry-approved curriculum, has unfortunately resulted in your being far below the standard we would expect to see in your O.W.L. year. You lot will be pleased to know, yet, that these problems are now to exist rectified. Nosotros will be following a carefully structured, theory-centred, Ministry building-approved course of defensive magic this year."
— Dolores Umbridge's alibi for depriving students of practical defense force[src]

Sixth twelvemonth

"You lot volition now carve up... into pairs. One partner will attempt to jinx the other without speaking. The other will attempt to repel the jinx in equal silence. Bear on."
— A Due north.E.Due west.T. lesson on nonverbal spells[src]

Official curriculum

"I've decided to visit Hogwarts from time to time to teach you new defensive spells. This is all informal, of course. I'yard not replacing your professor, but tutoring."
— Nib Weasley explaining his tutoring lessons to sixth years[src]

During the 1989–1990 schoolhouse yr, Nib Weasley was given permission by Albus Dumbledore to give evening classes in this subject after graduating Hogwarts, due to the ineffectiveness of the didactics that school year.[57]

7th year

Known professors

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

"At that place is a new Defence Confronting the Dark Arts teacher, and that position is now as safe as the other teaching posts at Hogwarts, since Voldemort's death broke the jinx that kept a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor from remaining for more than a year."
— J. Yard. Rowling stated the jinx on the DADA post has been lifted[src]
  • Unidentified 19th-century Defence Against the Dark Arts professor (c. 1890) [98]
  • Galatea Merrythought (?–1945) [2]
  • Unidentified professor (1984–1985) [40]
  • Unidentified professor (1985–1986) [41]
  • Unidentified professor (1986–1987) [42]
  • Unidentified professor (1987–1988) [43]
  • Unidentified professor (1989–1990) [57]
  • Unidentified professor (1998–?) [99]

During the fourth dimension between the beginning of Voldemort'southward jinx and when information technology was somewhen cleaved, in that location was at least one professor per twelvemonth. Therefore, between c. 1965 and 1990 (the year before Harry began studying at Hogwarts) in that location could be effectually twenty-5 unlike professors in the position.[100]

Severus Snape served as a substitute teacher during the 1993–1994 school year, when Remus Lupin was feeling ill.[79]

Harry Potter occasionally gave lectures on the subject.[27]

Ilvermorny Schoolhouse of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Required textbooks

  • Confronting the Faceless (Due north.East.W.T.-level)[20]

Grades

Known O.Due west.L.south

  • All Aurors since information technology is a compulsory N.E.West.T.-level qualification; therefore O.W.L. must have been accomplished before that.[32]

Behind the scenes

  • When J. K. Rowling was asked why Dumbledore would non give Severus Snape the Defence Confronting the Dark Arts job, Rowling responded that Dumbledore believed that teaching Defence Against the Nighttime Arts would bring out Snape's worst side,[106] though Dumbledore finally relented in Harry's 6th twelvemonth.[107] Snape admitted to Bellatrix Lestrange that reason during their conversation in Spinner's End.[108]
  • Rowling has also revealed that after Amycus Carrow was the Night Arts teacher, a permanent teacher took the postal service because Voldemort's jinx over the job was lifted.
  • Whilst information technology is known that Dumbledore did not wish Professor Snape to teach DADA for fear of relapsing into his Expiry Eater ways, it is also possible that (since the subject had been jinxed) he was besides thinking of Snape's physical well-beingness (non least of all because of how much of importance he could have been, and was, in the long run). Despite Dumbledore's fear, notwithstanding, Snape did not truly return to his former ways when granted the position he sought for, though he did teach the lessons with a sense of passion for the Dark Arts.
  • Each Defense force Against the Dark Arts teacher attacked (or attempted to attack) Harry.
    • Quirrell tried to strangle Harry and jinxed his broom during a Quidditch game.
    • Lockhart attempted to erase his memories
    • Lupin went afterward him as a werewolf (although he alone out of all the others would never have attacked Harry if he had been in his human class)
    • Barty Crouch Jnr (disguised as Moody) tried to impale him.
    • Umbridge physically assaulted him and threatened him with the Cruciatus Curse (and had previously sent Dementors to attack him, though this was earlier she taught the discipline).
    • Snape attacked Harry in retaliation for Harry trying to curse him during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.
    • Ironically, Amycus Carrow, who taught Dark Arts instead of Defence force Confronting the Nighttime Arts, was attacked past Harry Potter after Amycus had insulted Minerva McGonagall.
  • Dolores Umbridge was the only female person Defense force Against the Nighttime Arts teacher in the serial besides Galatea Merrythought; Galatea was not seen throughout the series, only mentioned.
  • The six professors of this subject field who taught Harry each had a dark secret that he did non learn until near the cease of their respective school years:
    • Quirrell was serving Voldemort and was possessed past him.
    • Lockhart was a cowardly fraud who covertly stole the achievements of others.
    • Lupin was a werewolf.
    • Moody was actually Barty Crouch Jnr, an escaped Death Eater.
    • Umbridge was the 1 who sent the Dementors that attacked Harry and Dudley.
    • Snape was the one who had reported the prophecy to Voldemort and was the Half-Blood Prince.
  • During his tenure equally Potions Master, Severus Snape only accepted students who achieved an 'Outstanding' on their OWLs into his NEWT-level Potions classes. Notwithstanding, when Snape became the Defence Against the Night Arts instructor in the 1996–1997 school yr, students who achieved 'Exceeds Expectations' were still allowed to have the NEWT-level DADA classes.
  • The but book to have twice been assigned for this subject is The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection.
  • Almost of the Defence Against the Nighttime Arts teachers in Harry's six years at Hogwarts followed a like pattern: each (with the exception of Quirrell and Snape).
    • They were an entirely new teacher; each was chosen out of necessity, due to the loss of the previous instructor and the absence of other applicants
    • each meets Harry before he arrives at Hogwarts in the respective yr (with the exception of Mad-Eye Moody, who was only mentioned in passing, although Harry had unknowingly encountered Barty Crouch Jnr at the Quidditch Globe Cup)
    • and each physically (or magically) attacks Harry during school term, either intentionally or accidentally, as in the case of Remus Lupin.
  • In Harry Potter and the Social club of the Phoenix, when discussing who their new Defence Against the Night Arts teacher would be, Harry said that the teachers didn't have much luck: "I sacked, one dead, one lost his memory, and one was locked in a trunk for ix months," referring to Lupin, Quirrell, Lockhart, and Moody, respectively; this isn't true, withal, considering Lupin resigned rather than was fired. As well, Hunker Jnr, the de facto teacher for Harry's quaternary year, suffered the Dementor'south Buss.
  • Quirinus Quirrell is the only Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher known to have died during the twelvemonth he gave the subject.
  • According to Pottermore, from the best to worst Defence Against the Night Arts instructor during the seven years of Harry'due south educational activity:
    1. Remus Lupin, for his fair, pop and constructive pedagogy methods.
    2. Severus Snape, for his effective, qualified notwithstanding strict methods.
    3. Gilderoy Lockhart, for his fraudulence, education about himself more well-nigh defense force.
    4. Barty Hunker, for his fidelity with Voldemort, despite his actual didactics effectiveness.
    5. Amycus Carrow, for turning the class into simply Night Arts and his brutal discipline methods.
    6. Dolores Umbridge, for depriving the class of any practicality and her scarring disciplinary methods.
    7. Quirinus Quirrell, for having Voldemort at the dorsum of his caput.
  • In Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, if players take Jacob'southward sibling to the O.Westward.Fifty. through an optional side quest, they will definitely gain at least an A, even if they neglect to respond every question and perform whatever defensive spells.
  • In the early on video games, creatures such as Burn down Venereal, Fire Dwelling Salamanders (which are canonically small, not-ambitious lizards) and Streelers are covered in Defence Confronting the Dark Arts classes. However, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them confirms that these creatures are not dark creatures, nor very dangerous, and Fire Venereal (a highly protected species) and Streelers (domesticated equally pets) are in fact taught and handled in Care of Magical Creatures instead, meaning their inclusion on the Defence Against the Dark Arts curriculum is not canon. Several games too draw gnomes equally beingness covered in the class, which seems rather odd because they are simply harmless (albeit annoying) garden pests, and are not considered dark or unsafe.
  • Also in the early video games, spells such every bit the Softening Charm or Seize and pull charm are taught in this class, despite these spells seemingly non having any defensive or offensive qualities. It is likely these spells were taught in this class purely for game-play reasons.
  • In LEGO Harry Potter: Years i-4, in Gilderoy Lockhart'southward starting time Defense Against the Night Arts lesson, Lockhart teaches his students the Freezing Charm for combating Pixies.[83] However, this lesson cannot be considered canon, since it fundamentally contrasts this lesson's depiction in the 2d volume.

Appearances

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher'south Stone (Start appearance)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher'south Stone (moving picture)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Sleeping accommodation of Secrets (movie)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (moving picture)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (motion picture)
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Harry Potter and the Society of the Phoenix (picture)
  • Harry Potter and the Lodge of the Phoenix (video game)
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince (motion-picture show) (Mentioned only)
  • Harry Potter and the One-half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned only)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned just)
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Appears in an alternate reality)
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play) (Appears in an alternate reality)
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
  • The Annal of Magic: The Flick Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
  • Pottermore
  • Wizarding World
  • LEGO Harry Potter: Years one-four
  • LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-seven
  • LEGO Harry Potter
  • Harry Potter Trading Card Game
  • Harry Potter for Kinect
  • Harry Potter: The Grapheme Vault (Mentioned only)
  • Harry Potter: The Brute Vault
  • Harry Potter: The Wand Collection (Mentioned simply)
  • Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
  • Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Mentioned only)
  • Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (Mentioned only)
  • Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
  • Hogwarts Legacy

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.i one.2 1.3 one.4 1.5 ane.half dozen Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
  2. two.0 2.ane two.two two.3 ii.4 two.5 2.6 Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince, Chapter 20 (Lord Voldemort'south Asking)
  3. iii.0 3.1 3.2 iii.3 3.four Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year v, Chapter 1 (Year Five Begins) - Defence force Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Ghoul"
  4. four.0 iv.one 4.2 4.3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher'southward Stone, Chapter 5 (Diagon Aisle)
  5. v.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.thirteen v.14 5.xv Harry Potter and the Bedroom of Secrets, Chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts)
  6. half-dozen.0 6.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5 (The Dementor)
  7. 7.0 7.i 7.two 7.iii 7.4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn down, Affiliate 35 (Veritaserum)
  8. 8.0 viii.i Harry Potter and the Social club of the Phoenix, Chapter 11 (The Sorting Lid'south New Song)
  9. 9.0 9.1 nine.2 Harry Potter and the One-half-Claret Prince, Affiliate 8 (Snape Victorious)
  10. 10.0 ten.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 12 (Magic is Might)
  11. xi.0 11.1 Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
  12. 12.0 12.one https://game.163.com/news/2020/06/02/18455_884321.html - This page from the official website of NetEase states that the story starts ten years after the Battle of Hogwarts ("游戏故事时间设定在霍格沃茨大战十年之后")
  13. 13.0 xiii.ane 13.two 13.3 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" atWizarding Globe
  14. fourteen.0 14.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (picture show) - Chapter 11 (Gilderoy Lockhart)
  15. xv.0 15.ane 15.2 xv.3 15.four 15.5 xv.6 fifteen.7 15.8 xv.9 Harry Potter and the Philosopher'southward Stone (video game)
  16. 16.0 16.one 16.2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) - Affiliate 15 (New Seeker)
  17. 17.0 17.i 17.ii 17.three Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (picture) - Affiliate 14 (Substitute Teacher)
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 xviii.six 18.7 Harry Potter and the Lodge of the Phoenix, Chapter 12 (Professor Umbridge)
  19. 19.0 19.1 nineteen.2 19.3 nineteen.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 Harry Potter and the Club of the Phoenix (moving-picture show) - Chapter x (Professor Umbridge's Class)
  20. twenty.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 20.12 20.xiii 20.xiv xx.15 20.xvi 20.17 20.xviii twenty.xix 20.twenty 20.21 Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince, Affiliate 9 (The Half-Blood Prince)
  21. 21.0 21.ane 21.ii 21.iii 21.4 21.5 21.vi 21.seven Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter vii (The Boggart in the Wardrobe)
  22. 22.00 22.01 22.02 22.03 22.04 22.05 22.06 22.07 22.08 22.09 22.10 22.11 22.12 22.13 22.14 22.15 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn, Chapter 14 (The Unforgivable Curses)
  23. 23.0 23.one 23.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter half-dozen (Gilderoy Lockhart)
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.two 24.3 24.four 24.5 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter viii (Flying of the Fat Lady)
  25. 25.0 25.i 25.2 25.iii Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map)
  26. 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.four Harry Potter and the Philosopher'southward Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Primary)
  27. 27.0 27.i Finished 'Potter'? Rowling tells what happens next at Today (26 Jul 2007)
  28. 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.iv 28.5 Harry Potter and the One-half-Blood Prince, Affiliate 21 (The Unknowable Room)
  29. 29.0 29.ane 29.2 29.three 29.4 Harry Potter and the Society of the Phoenix, Chapter fifteen (The Hogwarts High Inquisitor)
  30. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 28 (Snape'southward Worst Retentiveness)
  31. 31.0 31.ane 31.2 Harry Potter and the Social club of the Phoenix, Chapter 31 (O.W.L.s)
  32. 32.0 32.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 29 (Careers Advice)
  33. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr 5, Chapter xxx (Into the Vault)
  34. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 17 (The Man with Two Faces)
  35. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter xiii (Detention with Dolores)
  36. 36.0 36.ane 36.2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Affiliate 29 (The Lost Diadem)
  37. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter fifteen (The Unbreakable Vow)
  38. Harry Potter and the Sleeping accommodation of Secrets, Chapter 16 (The Sleeping accommodation of Secrets)
  39. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 12 (Silver and Opals)
  40. 40.0 40.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 1, Chapter 8 (Preparing for the Room)
  41. 41.0 41.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 2, Chapter 6 (Bill Weasley)
  42. 42.0 42.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 7 (Jacob's Room)
  43. 43.0 43.one Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year four, Affiliate 4 (Curse-Breakers)
  44. 44.0 44.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter two (Grave Danger) - Defense force Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Hex-Deflection"
  45. 45.0 45.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year five, Chapter iii (Detention Earlier Extension) - Defence Against the Night Arts Lesson "Impedimenta"
  46. 46.0 46.one Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr 5, Chapter 7 (The Life and Death of Duncan Ashe) - Defense force Confronting the Dark Arts Lesson "Pixies"
  47. 47.0 47.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year five, Affiliate 8 (Trial by Fire)
  48. 48.0 48.ane Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr 5, Chapter xiii (Rats and Dogs) - Defense force Against the Night Arts Lesson "Trip Jinx"
  49. 49.0 49.ane Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year five, Chapter 15 (Secrets and Lies) - Defence Against the Nighttime Arts Lesson "Deprimo"
  50. 50.0 50.i Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year five, Chapter 17 (Broken Bonds) - Defense Against the Nighttime Arts Lesson "Fumos"
  51. 51.0 51.1 51.2 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr 5, Affiliate xix (The Unforgivable Curses) - Defence Against the Night Arts Lesson "Lacarnum Inflamari"
  52. 52.0 52.i 52.2 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 22 (Agent of Anarchy) - Defence Against the Night Arts Lesson "Vipera Evanesca"
  53. 53.0 53.one Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Affiliate 24 (Dark Pranks) - Defense force Against the Nighttime Arts Lesson "Reductor Expletive"
  54. 54.0 54.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year v, Chapter 29 (Final Preparations) - Defence Against the Nighttime Arts Lesson "Everte Statum"
  55. 55.0 55.one Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 26 (Chaos Ensues) - Defense Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Densaugeo"
  56. 56.0 56.i Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr 5, Chapter 28 (Nigh Merula) - Defense Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Homenum Revelio"
  57. 57.0 57.one 57.2 57.3 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Twelvemonth 6, Affiliate 5 (Wherefore Art K, Weasleys?)
  58. 58.0 58.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Twelvemonth vii, Chapter 3 (On the Case) - Defence force Confronting the Dark Arts Lesson "Chameleon Ghoul"
  59. 59.0 59.1 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Professor Quirrell" atWizarding World
  60. Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Gilderoy Lockhart" atWizarding World
  61. 61.0 61.1 61.ii 61.3 61.iv Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Affiliate 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
  62. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 14 (Cornelius Fudge)
  63. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 11 (The Duelling Club)
  64. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Affiliate 12 (The Patronus)
  65. 65.0 65.1 65.ii Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn down, Chapter xv (Beauxbatons and Durmstrang)
  66. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter v (The Order of the Phoenix)
  67. Harry Potter and the Gild of the Phoenix, Chapter eighteen (Dumbledore's Army)
  68. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Affiliate 27 (The Centaur and the Sneak)
  69. Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince, Chapter 11 (Hermione'due south Helping Hand)
  70. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 31 (The Battle of Hogwarts)
  71. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 13 (Nicolas Flamel)
  72. Writing by J. G. Rowling: "Werewolves" atWizarding World
  73. 73.0 73.1 73.2 73.iii 73.four 73.v 73.6 73.7 The Dark Forces: A Guide to Cocky-Protection
  74. 74.0 74.i 74.2 74.three 74.iv 74.5 74.6 74.7 74.8 74.9 Harry Potter and the Sleeping accommodation of Secrets (video game)
  75. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Rock, Affiliate 9 (The Midnight Duel)
  76. 76.0 76.1 76.2 76.3 These were all dark creatures Gilderoy Lockhart covered in his official textbooks, according to Harry Potter and the Sleeping room of Secrets, Chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts).
  77. 77.0 77.one Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter fourteen (Snape'due south Grudge)
  78. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Affiliate 16 (Professor Trelawney's Prediction)
  79. 79.0 79.1 79.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Affiliate 9 (Grim Defeat)
  80. 80.0 lxxx.1 fourscore.2 80.3 80.iv Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
  81. 81.0 81.1 81.2 81.3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
  82. 82.0 82.ane Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 28 (The Madness of Mr Crouch)
  83. 83.0 83.i LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-four
  84. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year v, Chapter 8 (Trial by Fire) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Mimblewimble"
  85. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 24 (Render to the Forest) - Defence force Against the Nighttime Arts Lesson "Banshees"
  86. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year half dozen, Affiliate 27 (Letting Go) - Defence force Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Flesh-Eating Slugs"
  87. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Twelvemonth six, Chapter 42 (The Last Vault) - Defence Against the Night Lessons Lesson "Kappa"
  88. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Affiliate 6 (On Jacob's Trail) - Defense force Confronting the Dark Arts Lesson "Ear-Shrivelling Expletive"
  89. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr 6, Affiliate x (Cloaks and Conflicts) - Defence force Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Langlock"
  90. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter xiii (On the Run) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Sea Urchin Jinx"
  91. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr half dozen, Chapter 21 (Moving Forward) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Cave Inimicum"
  92. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr 6, Chapter 32 (Quest for Polyjuice) - Defence Confronting the Dark Arts Lesson "Imperturbable Charm"
  93. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 37 (Inbound the Black Lake!) - Defence force Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Stretching Jinx"
  94. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr seven, Chapter 13 (Side Effects May Include Retentivity Loss) - Defense force Against the Nighttime Arts Lesson "Gnome"
  95. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Yr seven, Chapter 20 (A Different Kind of Hospital Drama) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Manticore"
  96. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 35 (The Auror Programme) - Assignment "Poltergeist Bug"
  97. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 33 (Double Agents) - Defence Against the Nighttime Arts lesson "Darkening Charms"
  98. Hogwarts Legacy
  99. Vieira, Meredith. "JK Rowling One-On-One: Part One." Today Show (NBC) , 26 July 2007 - Accio Quote!
  100. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 18 (Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs) Remus Lupin - ""I was a very small male child when I received the bite...Simply and then Dumbledore became Headmaster, and he was sympathetic." Writing past J. K. Rowling: "Remus Lupin" atWizarding Earth - Lupin was attacked shortly earlier his fifth birthday (March 1965) and Headmaster Dumbledore comes to visit before long earlier his eleventh birthday (March 1971) so Dumbledore succeeded Dippet every bit headmaster during this fourth dimension.
  101. 101.0 101.1 101.2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 5 (An Excess of Phlegm)
  102. 102.0 102.1 Harry Potter and the Bedroom of Secrets, Affiliate iv (At Flourish and Blotts) - It is said that both Percy and Nib Weasley earned twelve Ordinary Wizarding Levels, pregnant they must have earned an O.W.L. in this subject area.
  103. Harry Potter and the Club of the Phoenix, Chapter 25 (The Beetle at Bay)
  104. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
  105. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (see this image)
  106. Quick-Quote Quill - J. One thousand. Rowling
  107. Interview from Quick Quote Quill
  108. Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince, Chapter two (Spinner's Terminate)
Defence Against the Dark Arts (D.A.D.A.)

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D.A.D.A. at Hogwarts
Classroom 3C · Classroom 3C backrooms · Temporary Classroom · Hogwarts Turris Magnus · Teacher's Office · Storeroom · Staircase · Storage room · Lesson Loving cup · Race Cup · Duelling Club · Dumbledore's Ground forces
Professors
Arsenius Jigger · Albus Dumbledore · Galatea Merrythought · 19th century professor · 1984–1985 professor · 1985–1986 professor · 1986–1987 professor · 1987–1988 professor · Patricia Rakepick · 1989–1990 professor · Quirinus Quirrell · Gilderoy Lockhart · Remus Lupin · Bartemius Hunker Junior (as Alastor Moody) · Dolores Umbridge · Severus Snape · Amycus Carrow (as Dark Arts teacher) · Unidentified professor · Brindlemore
Textbooks
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Cocky-Protection · Advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts · Pause with a Banshee · Gadding with Ghouls · Holidays with Hags · Travels with Trolls · Voyages with Vampires · Wanderings with Werewolves · Year with the Yeti · The Essential Defence Against the Night Arts · Defensive Magical Theory · Nighttime Arts Defence – Basics for Beginners · Confronting the Faceless · Defence Against the Nighttime Arts
Spells studied at Hogwarts under D.A.D.A.
Aqua Eructo · Boggart-Banishing Spell (Riddikulus) · Cave inimicum · Concealment Charms · Counter-curses · Counter-jinxes · Cruciatus Curse (Crucio) · Curse of the Bogies (Mucus ad Nasuem) · Cursed barrier spell · Densaugeo · Deprimo Spell (Deprimo) · Convincing Charm (Expelliarmus) · Ear-Shrivelling Curse · Everte Statum · Freezing Spell (Glacius) · Full Torso-Bind Curse (Petrificus Totalus) · Fumos Duo · Light-green Sparks · Hex-Breaker· Hex-deflection · Hex Zapper · Homorphus Charm · Human-presence-revealing Spell (Homenium Revelio) · Impediment Jinx (Impedimenta) · Imperius Expletive (Imperio) · Imperturbable Charm · Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra) · Knockback Jinx (Flipendo) · Lacarnum Inflamari · Langlock · Limbo Mist anticharm · Nonverbal spells · Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronus) · Protective enchantments · Red Sparks (Vermillious) · Reductor Curse (Reducto) · Salvio hexia · Sea Urchin Jinx · Seize and pull amuse (Carpe Rectratum) · Shield Amuse (Protego) · Smokescreen Spell (Fumos) · Snake-Vanishing Spell (Vipera Evanesca) · Softening Charm (Spongify) · Stretching Jinx · Tickling Charm (Rictusempra) · Tongue-Tying Curse (Mimble Wimble) · Trip Jinx · Twitchy-Ears Hex · Verdimillious Amuse (Verdimillous) · Verdimillious Duo Spell (Verdimillous) · Verdimillious Tria · Vermillious Duo · Vermillious Tria · Wand-Lighting Charm (Lumos)
Creatures studied at Hogwarts nether D.A.D.A.
Banshee · Boggart · Chameleon Ghoul · Overjoyed skeleton · Cornish Pixie · Dementor · Dugbog · Erkling · Flesh-Eating Slug · Ghost · Ghoul · Gnome · Grindylow · Gytrash · Hag · Hinkypunk · Iguana · Imp · Inferius · Kappa · Manticore · Nocturnal beasts · Poltergeist · Red Cap · Snake · Troll · Vampire · Vampire bat · Werewolf · Yeti · Zombie
Hogwarts subjects
Core classes Astronomy · Charms · Defence Against the Dark Arts · Herbology · History of Magic · Potions · Transfiguration

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Elective classes Abracadabra · Arithmancy · Intendance of Magical Creatures · Divination · Muggle Studies · Study of Ancient Runes
Extracurricular classes Bogeyman · Advanced Arithmancy Studies · Aboriginal Studies · Art · Flight · Ghoul Studies · Magical Theory · Muggle Fine art · Muggle Music · Music · Xylomancy
Examinations
First year exams · 2nd year exams · Third year exams · Fourth twelvemonth exams ·
Ordinary Wizarding Level · Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test
Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Ilvermorny Houses

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Namesake Founders
Isolt Sayre · Chadwick Kicking · Webster Boot · James Steward
Subjects offered
Arithmancy · Charms · Beast Intendance · Defense Confronting the Nighttime Arts · Potions · Study of Ancient Runes · Transfiguration · Xylomancy
Ilvermorny staff
William · Rionach Steward · Eulalie Hicks · Agilbert Fontaine

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