Number of Years Teaching at Hogwarts -- ?Significance

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 72479

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ellejir" <eberte at v...> wrote:
> I was listening again to the audiotape today and was struck by how 
> much detail there is in the passages in which Umbridge interviews 
the 
> teachers about their positions at Hogwarts.  She makes a point of 
> asking each teacher how long they have been at Hogwarts. 


> Snape said 14 years--so he apparently came to Hogwarts around the 
> time or immediately after Lord V's attack on Harry and his family.  
> This timing seems very significant.  Do you think that he was on 
the 
> side of the DEs or acting as a spy already for the Order at the 
time 
> of Harry's attack?  Do you think that he might have had anything to 
> do with Voldemort's choice of Harry and the Potters (vs. Neville 
and 
> the Longbottoms) as the ones to attack???  That could explain some 
of 
> his conflicted feelings about Harry.  

And it was only a year or so after the death of Regulus Black. Could 
Snape have been involved in the murder of Regulus, and that was the 
incident that pushed him away from the DEs and into Dumbledore's camp?

Marianne