Fw: DADA

[John Gabriel]

No: HPFGUIDX 68274

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo 
<owlery2003 at y...> wrote:
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> 
> sin_rm <sin_rm at p...> wrote:
> From: sin_rm 
> . . . Dumbledore doesn't "trust" Snape with the DADA 
position . . . my question is, why not . . . can someone take my 
hand and lead me somewhere private and explain the facts of life to 
me regarding this?
> 
> 
> I had a prior post that suggested that giving Snape the DADA job 
would be like giving an alcoholic a drink. Snape is a "reformed" DE 
(for purposes of this response and respecting the swirling 
controversy over whether he's a traitor or not!), and I don't think 
DD wants to place him in a position where he can influence students 
in respect to the Dark Arts at all. He's brilliant at potions (so 
why lose a good professor there), and I think this was the 
deal/compromise DD made with him (though, I know he's applied for 
the DADA job every year . . .).
> 


I think this idea was confirmed in Jo's Albert Hall interview.

John Gabriel