It seems like there's an unspoken rule throughout the Harry Potter serial: each schoolhouse twelvemonth, you lot get a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and it always means more trouble (for both the students and the professor themselves). From Professor Quirell (Ian Hart) conveying 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 nearly 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 tertiary film of which The Secrets of Dumbledore is expected to release later on this year. Until then, these are all the Defence force 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 Club of Phoenix, equally a Ministry of Magic participant at Harry'southward trial. She has been brainwashed past the government to such extent that she doesn't believe in that location's any real danger lurking out at that place in the real world, despite concrete evidence clearly saying so. Minister Cornelius Fudge appoints her as a new instructor 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. As for the class itself, she doesn't teach them any practical magic and sticks to the books to forbid a rebellion the Ministry building fears would happen. Even without her evil personality, she still wouldn't rank higher as a teacher.

v Professor Quirrell

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Dumbledore should really consider perfecting his groundwork check skills on all the professors. It's truly baffling that Hogwarts is supposed to be the safest identify for wizards, even so they have let then many infiltrators in willingly. Professor Quirell is the perfect case. Not just did he non have whatever qualifications to go a Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor since he taught Muggle studies before, he was besides conveying Voldemort on his head.

4 Gilderoy Lockhart

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Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh) is definitely one of the lighter and more than fun characters in the Harry Potter and the Bedchamber of Secrets. But considering the fact he was a huge scammer, the students didn't actually learn much in the form. Information technology's again very perplexing that the Hogwarts system is so incompetent that they would rent an author as a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, non background-checking whether the accomplishments he writes in his volume are truthful. Yes, Lockhart did wipe everyone'south memories (the only spell he actually excelled at), only it doesn't necessarily warrant a position at the well-nigh prestigious wizard school in the world. Every time Lockhart boasted about his skills, the other professors seemed to exist enlightened he was lying.

3 Severus Snape

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Potterheads always tend to be split into two unlike parties: one that doesn't similar Snape (Alan Rickman) at all, and the other who will do their all-time to defend him. Despite the side you lot stand on, one matter'southward for sure: Snape was an amazingly intelligent wizard. He wanted to become the Defense Against the Night Arts instructor ever since he became a professor at Hogwarts, only all he ever got assigned to was Potions. It wasn't until the sixth film, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, that he finally got his dream position. Merely as nosotros find out in the flick, Snape'southward skills go way and beyond. When he was a student at Hogwarts, he rewrote the whole Potions volume in a way that the process would be easier. In spite of the contradicting opinions on his character, we take to admit he's an extremely powerful wizard.

2 Mad-Heart Moody

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Regardless of the fact that Mad-Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson) was actually a Expiry Eater chosen Barty Crouch Jr., we have to rank him up high. Yes, his teaching tactics were a piffling harsh, simply while he pretended to be Moody, he was really a likable character who imparted more wisdom onto his students than some other teachers on this list. There's no doubt that the real Alastor Moody would have maed an fantabulous teacher as well, because the fact he was an Auror and had the real-life feel of defending himself and others confronting the Dark Arts.

1 Remus Lupin

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And now, last but non least, ane of the best professors that have stepped foot into Hogwarts: Remus Lupin (David Thewlis). Non only was he a talented sorcerer of the Gild of the Phoenix, he was also a down-to-globe human being. He passed on incredibly helpful knowledge to Harry, such as teaching him how to defend himself confronting 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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