Defense Against the Dark Arts—legend had it that Voldemort had cursed this subject. In recent years, almost no one had managed to teach it for two years.
Every instructor generally suffered some kind of mishap within their first year of teaching.
For all sorts of strange reasons, they became unable to continue teaching the students.
But this time, Quirrell had "fallen" far too early.
This was indeed a problem that had to be addressed immediately.
"Do you have someone to recommend?" Dumbledore asked.
Whenever Dumbledore spoke with the Seer, he was always direct and never beat around the bush. In Dumbledore's view, there was no point in that.
Since Roger had brought it up, he must not have done so without reason.
But Roger shook his head. "No one in particular. I was just asking... If we're looking for someone within the school to fill in, then Professor Snape or you personally would be the most suitable. But if we're recruiting from outside, I'm a little curious who it'll be."
At present, the strongest people in the school were Dumbledore and the four Heads of House.
The Head of Hufflepuff was the Herbology professor, making him unsuitable. The Head of Ravenclaw was the Charms professor, and while he was very powerful, he was better at fighting wizards. Dealing with Dark creatures, on the other hand, lay outside his area of expertise.
He knew some of it, of course, but he had not reached the level of an expert in the field. They were all people with strict standards for themselves, so they probably would not agree to stand in front of the class and read straight from the textbook, turning Defense Against the Dark Arts—a subject tied to life and death—into an easy class.
The same went for Professor McGonagall,