
Many years later, after becoming steeped in the Dark Arts and starting to use the title "Lord Voldemort", he visited the school and applied again, this time to Dumbledore. Tom Riddle twice applied for the Defence Against 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 too young but invited him to re-apply a few years later. Due to the jinx on the teaching post that was present before Lord Voldemort died, many teachers had been appointed to this post. The curriculum of the class varied greatly depending on what the professor at the time deemed appropriate. Your defences must therefore be as flexible and inventive as the arts you seek to undo." - Professor Snape discussing Defence Against the Dark Arts during a sixth year lesson in 1996 ĭefence Against the Dark Arts was a required subject from first year to fifth year. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. " The Dark Arts, are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal.

The class was a core subject at Hogwarts.
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In this class, students studied and learnt how to defend themselves against all aspects of the Dark Arts, including dark creatures, curses, hexes and jinxes ( dark charms), and duelling. No cursing allowed." - Notice outside the classroom ĭefence 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. " Defence Against the Dark Arts Classroom.
