Snape as Head of Slytherin

[Heather Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 30610

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Margaret Dean <margdean at e...> wrote:
> Littlered32773 at y... wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone find it odd that someone as young as Snape (early to 
mid
> > 30's according to interviews with JK, and the fact that he went to
> > school with James), could be Head of Slytherin House?  

> >  <snip good reasons why it would be strange on the surface>

 
> Because he's the only one who would take the job?
> 
> Seriously, it could very well be that the previous Head of
> Slytherin House was one of the casualties of Voldy War I.  Also,
> Snape might have both Dumbledore and influential former DE's like
> Malfoy behind his appointment, given his "double agent" status. 
> This could also be a partial explanation of why Snape favors
> Draco Malfoy, if Lucius helped him get the HoH position.  Also
> why you catch him smirking in CoS when Draco is telling him how
> he'll get his dad to push for Snape as Headmaster.
> 
> Tangential to this:  assuming that Snape's fundamental loyalty
> =is= to Dumbledore (which as a Snapefan of sorts, I do tend to
> assume), I wonder if he and Dumbledore actually have an
> "understanding" that if anything does happen to Dumbledore, Snape
> =will= become Headmaster, therefore letting the DE's and LV think
> they have achieved a victory when they in fact haven't.  Can you
> imagine how horrified the Trio would be?  :)
> 
> 
> --Margaret Dean
>   <margdean at e...>

 There is also the prospect that Slytherin has shown itself to 
accumulate the children *most* likely to be susceptible to Dark 
propaganda. Snape, as someone who succumbed to that same influence 
and then came to realize its fatal flaws and turn aside from it, is 
in an excellent position to recognize the warning signs in the 
Slytherin kids, and try to subtly counteract those influences.  I 
maintain that the fact that the Slytherin kids took their medicine 
manfully when the House Cup was swept out of their hands at the end 
of PS, tends to indicate that Snape may be having at least some sort 
of a good influence on them. They dish it out, but they seem to 
understand that they also have to take it from time to time.

 Heather (uma)