Fw: DADA

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 68322

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "John Gabriel" 
<jgabriel66 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo 
> <owlery2003 at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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

Hi,
I agree entirely with the analogy of the alcoholic and the drink. I 
differ with the return to Voldemort conjecture however.
I think Dumbledores reservations about Snape teaching Defense against 
the Dark Arts are about Snapes liking for the Arts. His affinity with 
using them, that would make him unable to teach this particular 
course without some dabbling in the darker side becoming a temptation.

I am saying that, this doesn't automatically link up to a return to 
DE supporting, though it could, and even if it didn't, having a 
teacher who is unable to resist the power Dark Arts has over other 
levels of wizardry is a risk in itself, regardless of the potential 
consequences.
Valky