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[Harry Potter] Did Voldemort's jinxing of the Defense Against the Dark Arts position contribute to the woeful inadequacy of magical ability among Harry's generation of wizards?

It seems compared to his parent's generation, Harry's one just plain sucks at fighting. Did the lack of a stable DADA position contribute to that?
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Tom Riddle asked Dumbledore for the position, and then jinxed it, in the late 60s to early 70s. Molly Weasley would have graduated around 1968, and so would have been mostly unaffected by the Jinx. However Harry's parents and their cohort didn't graduate until 1978 - so they would have been just as impacted by the Jinx as Harry's generation.

Also, what evidence is there that Harry's generation sucks at fighting, compared to their parents at the same age? Harry's group seemed to handle themselves rather well going up against older wizards who had decades of experience and a wizarding war under their belt.