Snape - Includes GoF SPOILERS...

[Carlsson79]

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From: Carlsson79
Subject: Snape - Includes GoF SPOILERS...
Date: 8/7/00 3:35 pm  (ET)

I am including this spoiler space as I am not sure if we are still using
it or not. I a quite certain thath there will be a few people who haven't
read it...

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Ok - In GoF we learn yet more about Snape. He really is a detailed
character - rather than just someone to not like Harry. I've always
liked him, Snape and Hagrid are really complex characters (Hagrid's
wand is not broken). What I was thinking was (I've stopped thinking
alltogether now...)::

Why is Dumbledore reluctant to give Snape the Defence against the Dark
Arts job? We know he is good at it.
I am sure I remember someone saying he was expert at it in book 2 or 3,
when they thought Snape would get it, rather than Lupin (or was it Snape
instead of Lockhart - why was he employed?).
I am sure he know's his stuff after book 4. He was really interested in
it as a child. etc. So why has Dumbledore never given him the job?

Just wondering what other people think - I am sure it is more than
because there would be too much of the Snape v. Harry stuff. Ideas?

Nicholas