Motivations, Pt 1.

[vjmerri]

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From: vjmerri
Subject: Re: Motivations, Pt 1.
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Date: 8/10/00 9:41 pm  (ET)

> By: brooksindy
Date: 8/10/00 5:44 pm
Snape wants the DADA position, I noted in GoF last night that JKR
in her narrator's voice says "It was common knowledge that Snape
wanted....". Thus it is not just student hearsay, although that might
be general JKR deft misleading.


aha! So JKR put it in the prose and not just when a student was talking
to another student? interesting. She still could be having us on even in
prose. The old "everybody knows" routine on rumors, but perhaps he DID
want the job. It just is difficult to understand why Dumbledore would
NOT give him the job if Snape wanted it, unless its the "recovering
alcoholic" reason
that someone put forth recently. But in that case, he surely would still
be the one to teach how to defend. I don't know. I just haven't heard a
convincing reason why he would not be given the job if he really wanted
it. Haven't come to a conclusion on this issue yet. I just think that
surely he would be really good at the job if he really truly wanted
it. Well, we'll find out eventually, no doubt, if he DID want it or if
this is nothing more than student rumors.


Vicki