Snape and the Defense Against the Dark Arts Job

[Chelle]

No: HPFGUIDX 87360

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sawsan_issa" <sawsan_issa at e...>
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?

Actually, she says it would bring out the worst in Snape, not the
evil. In another group one person said they thought it was because
Snape is so paraniod and believes the children are being coddled
(which they are) he would get out of hand. ("No one gets dinner until
you can sucessfully disarm someone 6 different ways!")
I have to agree, but it could be because in the second movie when
Snape is yelling at the boys about the car he looks so much like my
mother its frightening. 

~ Chelle