Snape - DADA - **SPOILER**

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Snape - DADA - **SPOILER**
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5858] Re: Why doesn't Snape get the DADA job?
Date: 8/5/00 4:30 pm  (ET)

Some people
on another
Harry Potter
e-mail-list
said there
is no evidence
that Snape
actually
wants the
DADA job.
They said,
only the
students
have a rumor
that Snape wants
the DADA job to
explain why he hates
all the DADA teachers,
but no adult
and not Snape himself
ever SAYS Snape wants the job.

Having filled my Spoiler Space, here I can say that in GoF, Sirius told
Harry that Snape was an 'unpleasant' and strange little boy, always
interested in the Dark Arts, who arrived at his first year of school
already knowing more curses than most seventh-years.

Which is probably a clue to something. One thought I had is that Snape
had a purely intellectual interest in the Dark Arts, which led him to
hang out with other people (such as Lucius?) who were interested in the
Dark Arts, and he went along with them out of friendship until, too late,
he realized that he had accidentally become a Death Eater.

Another thought I had is that Snape had been raised by followers of
Voldemort to be a Dark Wizard. Could *Snape* be the hypothetical son of
V? Then his bad attitude could either be genetic or result from having
been raised as a piece of property instead of as an offspring.