Theory on the DADA-post's jinx

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 85392

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Florentine Maier" 
<florentinemaier at h...> wrote:
> 
> I think the jinx could go something like that: "Everybody who takes
> the job of DADA-teacher will come to grief because of his/her 
greatest
> weakness within a year."
> 
> Cases in point:
> Quirrell: Weak will
> Lockhard: Vanity
> Lupin: Being a werewolf
> Moody: Paranoia
> Umbridge: Imperiousness
> 


Something very like this started brewing in my head after reading 
the 'jinx' post. Dumbledore has said (according to JKR, since we've 
never actually 'heard' this, have we?) that he feared giving Severus 
the DADA position would 'bring out the worst in him'---let's continue 
that thought--the position would 'bring out the worst in him, as 
indeed it has everyone else who's held it'.
So I begin to think that perhaps the bring-out-the-worst effect may 
not be Severus-specific at all.

Mel, who thinks perhaps Snape didn't create the jinx, but might just 
want to turn it to his advantage.