OOP: DADA (with spoilers)

[emmamariebee]

No: HPFGUIDX 65143


> Ben writes:
>  How about this as a possibility:  Snape will finally be promoted 
to 
> the DADA position.  During his career advice meeting, Professor 
> McGonagall tells Harry that Snape only accepts students with 
> an 'outstanding' into his NEWT class.  During the examinations, 
DADA 
> was the only OWL on which he felt he would receive 
an 'outstanding.'  
> I think this would be so interesting. 
> 
> Ben

I think Snape *will* get the DADA position--but only in the seventh 
book. In that position, he will be strongly tempted to return to the 
actual practice of the Dark Arts. In some emtionally-charged scene 
with Harry, Snape'll be pulled back from the brink.  And then he'll 
die to save the son of the woman he admired and the man he despised 
because he, like Harry, comes to see that people are complex, 
appearances are deceiving, and Great Good lives in even the most 
unlikely places (in Harry, for example--a good that the current 
Snape can't see because he is blinded by his own prejudice). 

Em, from whom that distant wail that you've all been hearing since 
Saturday night when she read about Sirius has been emanating