Snape and Dumbledores trust - don't trust Rowling

[Gildor]

No: HPFGUIDX 54707

I don't belive Snape wants the DAtDA job at all, I think it is simply a rumors. This I came to think about a few weeks ago, and we discussed it over at another mailing list where most seemed to agree with me at the time. Studying the tekst there is no other suggestion that he wants the job except what the children are saying. It is a rumor started by Percy, and he is hardly the most believable of characters. I think that a highly skilled potion master (and he again and again proves his love for the subject) wouldn't want to have such a shifty job as DAtDA job. In SS when they found the petrified cat lockheart says

"I'll make it" Lockheart butted in. "I must have done it a hundred times, I could whip up a mandrake restoration drough in my sleep-" "excuse me" said Snape icily, "but I belive I am the potion master in this school" 

*squirms* one of my favorite parts, oh well anyway this one of many hints that he does not want the job. It is a very Rowling thing to make us belive one thing and I don't trust anything in her book unless it is proven by more than a single persons remark.

Another scene that makes me think "hmm maybe not" is when in "PoA" where he teaches the class he corrects the guy about Kappa, but in fact Snape is wrong, he says it is more common in Mongolia but according to Rowlings monster book they are more common in Japan as the girl had said.

This means that he wouldn't make a very good DATDA teacher.

Also when Harry tells Lupin he wants the job, Lupin says "disgusting" I fist thought that meant he was disgusted by Snape, but rereading it a few times I realize he is commenting on the potion, tasting disgusting.

All in all, I don't trust Percy and unless there is a more trusting character like Dumbledore stating it, I for one do not think Snape wants the job


Gildor

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