[HPforGrownups] Re: Spape and the DADA job

[Danette Schardt-Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 20593


--- Lyda Clunas <lydaclunas at xfilesfan.com> wrote:
> Catherine wrote:
> 
> > The DADA job.  I have never figured out why
> exactly Snape wants     
> > this job.  He is described as being very skilled
> at potions, and   
> > makes it 
> > clear in the trio's first lesson, when he waxes
> poetical about the 
> > beauty of the simmering cauldron, that he loves
> it.  He is the best 
> > man for the job.  So why does he want to teach
> DADA? 
> 
> The DADA stuff is only rumors, and I suspect they
> are rumors 
> encouraged by Dumbledore and Snape. If it seems to
> everyone that 
> Snape really *does* want the job and that Dumbledore
> doesn't trust 
> him with it (although this is false), then he
> appears by all accounts 
> to still be interested in and faithful to the Dark
> Arts. It's part of 
> the bluff.
> 
> Lyda
> 
> 

That's about the most plausble reason I've heard yet
for Snape's want for that position.  It also makes the
most sense too.  I'm hoping that maybe we will get
some more hints about that in OoP.

Danette
(Hoping that this isn't another red herring)

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