Snape (was: A question for parents.

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Snape (was: A question for parents.
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6125] Re: A question for parents.
Date: 8/7/00 10:05 pm  (ET)

> Also - anyone even looked at my Snape post? G'rrr...

When I looked at it, it just seemed to me that only recently someone had
asked on this list the same question: why Dumbledore didn't give Snape
the DADA job and I replied that on another list (I think it was hpa),
someone had pointed out that only the students tell each other that
Snape wants the DADA job as an explanation of why he hates all the DADA
teachers, but we never hear any adult say that Snape wants that job,
especially not Snape himself, and no one made a counterexample from the
books. But, as was pointed out on that list, Snape had adequate reason
to hate each of the DADA teachers: Quirrell for following Voldemort,
Lockhart for being a major git, Lupin for being someone he'd hated since
childhood. So maybe Snape never actually wanted the DADA job.

Other suggestions that I seem to recall being made on this list just
recently: maybe even Dumbledore can't get away with appointing a reformed
Death Eater to DADA teacher, maybe the position really is cursed and
Dumbledore doesn't want to lose Snape (Bill is a cursebreaker, therefore
curses can be broken, so why doesn't Dumbledore have the curse on the
DADA job broken?), maybe Dumbledore thinks that letting Snape spend too
much time reading Dark books might seduce him back to the Dark Side...

So I suddenly had a mood about answering the same question over and over.