harry potter - Why didn't Dumbledore remove Quirrell from DADA teaching when he realized something was wrong with him?
In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", from Snape's memory that Harry views, we learn that Dumbledore had misgivings about Quirrell, when he said to Snape:
Keep an eye on Quirrell, won't you?
If he knew something was off, why not remove him from a very sensitive position of teaching DADA to kids?
Answer
He is unlikely to have thought, at that point, that Quirrell was posing a direct danger to the students. I expect he would have removed him immediately if he had.
Therefore Dumbledore was giving Quirrell enough rope to hang himself with. He wanted Quirrell to proceed with what he was doing in an attempt to gather intelligence in case there was a bigger force at work behind it. Dumbledore had full confidence in his abilities and probably thought he would be able to stop Quirrell at any point if he truly needed to.
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