It seems similar there's an unspoken rule throughout the Harry Potter series: each school year, you get a new Defense Against the Night Arts teacher, and it always means more problem (for both the students and the professor themselves). From Professor Quirell (Ian Hart) carrying Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) on his caput to Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) torturing the students, it hasn't exactly been a smooth ride for the individuals in this teaching position throughout all the Harry Potter movies.

A little-known fact virtually Harry Potter is that Dumbledore used to teach this class before becoming a headmaster. Indeed,, that storyline is explored more in the Fantastic Beasts spinoff series, the third film of which The Secrets of Dumbledore is expected to release subsequently this year. Until then, these are all the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers in the Harry Potter movies, ranked.

6 Dolores Umbridge

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Dolores Umbridge get-go appears in the fifth Harry Potter movie, The Order of Phoenix, equally a Ministry of Magic participant at Harry'due south trial. She has been brainwashed past the government to such extent that she doesn't believe there's any real danger lurking out in that location in the real globe, despite concrete evidence conspicuously proverb so. Minister Cornelius Fudge appoints her every bit a new teacher for the Defense Against the Dark Arts to act equally an infiltrator of Hogwarts. With the power of the Ministry backing her actions, she doesn't shy away from using torture on her students to teach them a lesson. Equally for the form itself, she doesn't teach them any applied magic and sticks to the books to foreclose a rebellion the Ministry building fears would happen. Even without her evil personality, she still wouldn't rank higher as a teacher.

5 Professor Quirrell

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Dumbledore should actually consider perfecting his background bank check skills on all the professors. It's truly baffling that Hogwarts is supposed to exist the safest place for wizards, even so they accept allow and then many infiltrators in willingly. Professor Quirell is the perfect instance. Non only did he not have whatsoever qualifications to become a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher since he taught Muggle studies before, he was as well carrying Voldemort on his head.

4 Gilderoy Lockhart

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Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh) is definitely 1 of the lighter and more than fun characters in the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. But because the fact he was a huge scammer, the students didn't actually learn much in the class. Information technology'south once more very perplexing that the Hogwarts system is so incompetent that they would hire an writer as a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, not groundwork-checking whether the accomplishments he writes in his volume are true. Yeah, Lockhart did wipe everyone'south memories (the only spell he actually excelled at), but it doesn't necessarily warrant a position at the well-nigh prestigious sorcerer schoolhouse in the globe. Every time Lockhart boasted near his skills, the other professors seemed to be aware he was lying.

3 Severus Snape

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Potterheads e'er tend to be split into two different parties: one that doesn't like Snape (Alan Rickman) at all, and the other who will do their best to defend him. Despite the side y'all stand on, one thing'due south for sure: Snape was an amazingly intelligent sorcerer. He wanted to go the Defence Against the Dark Arts instructor always since he became a professor at Hogwarts, simply all he always got assigned to was Potions. It wasn't until the sixth pic, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, that he finally got his dream position. But equally nosotros notice out in the moving-picture show, Snape'south skills become way and beyond. When he was a student at Hogwarts, he rewrote the whole Potions volume in a manner that the procedure would be easier. In spite of the contradicting opinions on his grapheme, we have to admit he's an extremely powerful wizard.

2 Mad-Eye Moody

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Regardless of the fact that Mad-Centre Moody (Brendan Gleeson) was really a Expiry Eater chosen Barty Hunker Jr., we accept to rank him up high. Yes, his pedagogy tactics were a niggling harsh, simply while he pretended to be Moody, he was actually a likable graphic symbol who imparted more wisdom onto his students than another teachers on this list. There'south no dubiety that the real Alastor Moody would have maed an fantabulous instructor besides, because the fact he was an Auror and had the real-life feel of defending himself and others against the Dark Arts.

1 Remus Lupin

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And now, concluding but not least, one of the best professors that take stepped pes into Hogwarts: Remus Lupin (David Thewlis). Non just was he a talented sorcerer of the Order of the Phoenix, he was besides a down-to-earth homo. He passed on incredibly helpful cognition to Harry, such as teaching him how to defend himself against Dementors, and, more importantly, he served as a living connection to Harry's parents (with whom he was friends since their days at Hogwarts).

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