Why Snape is at Hogwarts WAS Re: A new thought! A new thought! Several!

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:
> Jan also mentions that the card obliquely introduces another angle:
> professors do another thing besides teach. They do research. He 
thinks Snape
> may be a research professor, perhaps working on something with 
Dumbledore.
> This ties a bit into his "love as a spell component" theory I put 
out
> earlier. Snape's teaching style is not the best, we pretty much all 
agree on
> that--but what if teaching is not the primary reason he is at 
Hogwarts at
> all? What if he's working on some project?

Wow, you're right, a new thought!  I, for one, really enjoy this 
theory.  It - I just think it sounds good.  It would make sense as 
far as why Snape is at Hogwarts, as teaching obviously doesn't seem 
to be his first love exactly.  


> And my related thought--what if Lily's sacrifice, as a component of 
Harry's
> protection, was a product of such research by Snape? 

<snip>

>And what if a willing sacrifice *can* be incorporated into
> a strong protective spell, and what if Dumbledore and Snape *are* 
working on
> that.....? And what if Snape's task is to seem to betray 
Dumbledore, whose
> own willing death will be a component in Voldemort's defeat? This 
is fun.

Yes, wow.  I could totally buy all that.  I can't think of any flaws, 
but of course, I never do right away, and look like an idiot when 
everyone else points out something obvious.  But I think this is an 
extremely interesting theory.  Even if the details aren't right, I 
think that there's really something to the basic idea you have.

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