[HPforGrownups] DADA position.

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 58701

Brief Chronicles wrote:
>
> But my real question is -- *why* doesn't Snape get that job? Is it because
he's so good at his current position that nobody could replace him? Does
Dumbledore just not take DADA as seriously as the other classes? I can see
the rumor idea -- that's definitely a possibility. But rumors come from
somewhere. Why would the kids get the idea that Snape wants to teach DADA?

I do think that Snape wanting to teach DADA is a rumor.  I did somewhat post
on this about a week ago or so on why people think he wants to teach that
subject.  I am going to cut and paste it in here, as I am too lazy to go
look up the post number on yahoo, but have it in my saved mail.  It was
posted on May 22 under the subject heading: McGonagal and l was Re: Missing
24 hours.

*begin cut/paste*
On a related theme, I, like many of you, have noticed that when there is a
crisis at the school, three teachers usually seem to turn up:  DD,
McGonagall, and Snape.  I have already discussed DD's and MM's role, but
then there is SS.  I see him as kind of the school security guard.  He turns
up when something nefarious may perhaps have occured.  The rumor floats
around Hogwarts that Snape wants the DADA job, but I say that instead of
*teaching* DADA, he *is* the one in charge of making sure the school is
defended against the Dark Arts.  This would make sense since he would
probably be the best one to judge whether they had been used and how
connected to V a situation may be.  Not saying DD is not capable of doing
this, but having Snape on the scene ensures that, if one of them misses the
clue, the other will catch it.  Also probably why Snape is not afraid to
speak up at the slightest thing.  Best example is in PoA when the students
have been moved to the Great Hall for the night, and Snape warns DD that
Lupin might be letting Sirius into the school.  Although he has been
overruled when it comes to appointing Lupin as a teacher, he feels that
Lupin is a security risk for the reason I have mentioned before, and
therefore it is his duty to point this out, even though DD is already aware
of it, in light of the new incident (Sirius slashing paintings).  Yeah, some
of his reasoning/motives behind this was because he wants Lupin out for his
own reasons, but I feel he was also performing his duty as he saw it as
Hogwarts Security Officer, for want of a better term.

Leader, Administrator, and Security Officer.  I've been calling these three
the Hogwarts Crisis Control Team for awhile now (sometimes Crisis Defense
Team instead, but usually the first).
*end cut/paste*

My reason for reposting this segment is to illustrate the role I see for
Snape, and thus demonstrate how a student years ago could have overheard a
tiny portion of a conversation between Snape and Dumbledore where something
was mentioned about Snape defending against the Dark Arts.  That
conversation would have been about Snape defending the *school* and its
students from the Dark Arts, but the eavesdropper, hearing it out of
context, misunderstood it and took it to mean they were discussing Snape
wanting the DADA job.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova