Snape and DADA

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89843

-Louise Margaret Freeman wrote:
> I think that one thing that will need to be explained in future
books is why 
> Snape was not given the DADA job at the beginning of OotP, when the 
> Educational Decree was passed giving the ministry power to appoint a
teacher 
> *if* Dumbledore could not fill the post.  He says he trusts Snape. 
Snape 
> had substituted for Lupin in the class back in PoA.  Snape wants the
job. 
> Dumbledore could therefore have stopped Umbridge from being
appointed with 
> one stroke of his quill.  Why didn't he do it?
> 
> I see only two possibilities 1) He has some, yet to be revealed,
reason for 
> keeping Snape where he is or 2) He had some reason for wanting
Umbridge in 
> that position.  He wanted an incompetent teacher in that class the
very year 
> his prize pupil was to take his OWLS? <snip>


Carol:

I realize that this isn't a complete explanation, but if DD hires
Snape to teach DADA, he'll have to hire a new Potions teacher. Since
Snape, despite his teaching methods, does know more than virtually
anyone else in the WW about potions and antidotes (one of the few who
can concoct a wolfbane potion, for example), DD needs him where he is.

As for the hiring of Umbridge, I don't think DD had a choice. But
Lockhart? Something is definitely going on with the hiring of DADA
teachers. Maybe the position really is jinxed. If so, I can see why he
would want to keep Snape out of it.

Carol