[HPforGrownups] Re: An Unexpected DADA (Why Dumbledore doesn't let Snape teach DADA)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 16806

> Snape is a recovering Death Eater, and, like other recovering
> people, he will never be recovered fully.  Would you give a 
> recovering alcoholic the keys to the liquor storeroom?  It's not a 
> quesiton of trust.  


I think it might be a matter of Snape not knowing his own strength
when it comes to teaching things like DADA.  He could easily blast a
student through a wall while demonstrating a lesson.  I can't imagine
him using spiders as teaching tools, for instance.

But on the whole I lean to the
he-doesn't-really-want-the-job-student-urban-legend theory.

Incidentally, re the Dumbledore trust issue, in GoF when Filch, Snape
and Moody meet on the stairs where Harry's trapped and Snape accuses
Moody of searching his office, Moody casually claims it as his
privilege as an Auror.  Snape insists that he doesn't believe that
Dumbledore gave Moody permission for the search but isn't it
interesting that he doesn't immediately stomp off to Dumbledore with
a complaint? (I know it's the middle of the night but Moody conducted
his search earlier.)  It's as if Snape doesn't really quite believe
it himself that DUmbledore trusts him. 

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