Potion Master supreme

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 83681

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "evil_sushi2003" 
<evil_sushi2003 at h...> wrote:
> --- > As Snape does IMHO detest Harry, then this is no problem. 
But, if 
> Snape is passionate about DADA as he appears to be (applying how 
> many times??? she asks increduously), then maybe he would enjoy it 
> and beome.. well.... nice???? ok, not NICE, but maybe more 
> tolerable, as he would be working in something he perhaps... 
> enjoys???? 

June:
So in fact we could expect to see a kinder and gentler Severus if 
only he were to get the job he's always wanted.  And what we are 
seeing is simply the mammoth fourteen year strop of a man who's 
knocked back for the only thing he ever wanted to do?
> 
> 
> >DADA is more glamorous, but perhaps Potions is more essential.

I'l reiterate what I may well have said before, either here or 
somewhere else (or maybe someone else said it...) Snape's great and 
famous poetic opening lines are NOT the lines of someone who sees 
what he does as humdrum and workaday.  

Potions is subtle and rather sexy (well I certainly think so what 
with all that bewitching of the mind and ensnaring of the senses).  
DADA is wand waving.  Boring.  I think Snape knows he can out wand-
wave anyone anyway and doesn't have to prove anything (and to those 
of you who are sniggering at the back over the wand waving thing - 
just get your filthy minds out of the gutter will you - I know who 
you are!)

I think the repeated applications for the DADA post are a baffle.  
Deliberate and intended and maybe even part of an agreement between 
Snape and Dumbledore.  I'm not saying that underneath the outer 
sulkpot, Snape is actually some happy chappy.  No, but a reputation 
for malcontentedness never does any harm if you are trying to 
maintain an aura of untrustworthyness.  It won't do Snape's cause 
any good if he's seen to be perfectly contented by either LV or 
anyone more overtly associated with him.  But if he's apparently 
bearing a grudge at being passed over for the job he wants, then 
he's more likely to fit in either as a Death Eater or useful contact 
on the periphery.

June

Potion Master Supreme - sounds like a recipe to me.