Potter Occupations

[khinterberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 109662

I was in the shower thinking through a bit in OotP that I had just
read in Ch 17. Umbridge is observing Snape's class, asks him how long
he has been working there, and he replies "fourteen years." We also
find out that he (predictably) first applied for the DADA position but
didn't get it.  The fourteen years means that he was either given the
position shortly before or after the infamous night at Godric's Hollow
and that when he applied both the Potions and DADA positions were
available.  

So did he apply at the beginning of the school year,
perhaps because both previous professors had retired? Or were both the
posts vacated that year and applied partway through? This would lead
one to believe that perhaps Lily and James Potter were those two
teachers, although I'm not sure which was in which position.  JKR has
told us that some of the teachers at Hogwarts are married or have been
widowed, but that this information is kept protected and we will find
out why later in the series.  Could these points somehow tie in
together?  What does everyone think?

"khinterberg"