[HPforGrownups] Snape and the Defense Against the Dark Arts Job

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 87329

At 18:29 19/12/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>I read that JKR had said that Snape can't get the Defense Against the
>Dark Arts job  because Dumbledore feels that it will cause Snape's bad
>side (as if it could get worse) to come out. That intrigues me. What
>do you think the reason is? What is it about the Defense Against the
>Dark Arts job that will bring out the evil in Snape?


Tanya wrote below:

I was perusing the Lexicon last night for research.  (fanfic).
One thing that stood out for me what the Snape applied for the DADA job
at the very start before he actually began working at Hogwarts.  Now back
then he was a DE and a spy.  It all hinges on exactly when he got the post at
Hogwarts, but if LV was still in body at that point, it might have done 
Snape's
cover good to try and get into Hogwarts to teach defense with LV's blessing.

Now, this could be the case that Dumbledore is keeping him away from the
DADA job to prevent LV from trying to activate the original plan.  Or else 
the job
would drag Snape back to his roots as he came to Hogwarts as a student
knowing more than most senior students.

Sorry if this is too OT or theocratical.