[HPforGrownups] Re: Number of Years Teaching at Hogwarts -- ?Significance

[Rania Melhem]

No: HPFGUIDX 74265



Elle wrote:

> 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.  
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I think that Snape would have had to start at Hogwart two months before the attack since term starts at Hogwarts on September 1 and the Potters were attacked on Halloween night.

I think that Dumbledore hired Snape so that Snape would have an excuse to be near him and not arouse the suspicions of the Death Eaters and Voldemort. This also explains why he never got the DADA teaching job because it would have been too suspicious the Death Eaters and Voldy would have to know that while Dumbledore just might hire Snape as a potions teacher he would never hire him as a DADA teacher without absolute proof of his not being a Death Eater or that he had left their ranks.
 

Rania