Snape's job at Hogwarts

[brandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 111256

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "khinterberg" <khinterberg at y...> wrote:
> In OotP, during the Potions class in which Umbridge supervises Snape,
> he says that he has held his job there for 14 years, which means he
> got the post the year baby Harry's life changed.  What are ideas of
> why he got the job then? We also know he first applied for DADA, but
> didn't get that.  So were both positions open that year?  
> 


I noticed this too - it seems like he was quite young to become a Hogwarts prof.  I 
think that part of his coming to Hogwarts may have had to do with his defection from 
V, a way for Dumbledore to ensure his safety - or to give him a cover so that V would 
think he was actually spying ON DD instead of FOR him. But regardless, he must have 
been truly amazing at Potions to get the position so young; if he weren't worthy of it, 
I'm sure DD could have found another job for him to get him to Hogwarts (apprentice 
Potions master or something, I don't know).

I also wonder how many times he's gone after the DADA post, and been rejected. Was 
it just because he's better at potions? Or because he's been too close to the dark arts 
for comfort? Or maybe DD worries that if he's teaching DADA, V will realize what side 
he's really on.

-Brandy