Snape Question

[Judy]

No: HPFGUIDX 106281

Carol said, regarding when Snape became a teacher:
> We don't know that Snape became a teacher after Harry's parents
> deaths, which occurred on October 31. It could have been just before
> their deaths, at the start of term on September 1....
> Surely a teacher didn't conveniently die just as Voldemort fell (and
> Snape needed a job)....

Actually, I've often suspected that Snape took over his position from 
someone killed, injured, or arrested in the aftermath of Voldemort's 
fall.  We know that immediately after Voldemort lost his power, there 
were arrests of DEs, accompanied by battles -- sometimes to the 
death -- between DEs and aurors.  Hogwarts could have lost several 
teachers at that time, either aurors who fell in battle, or DEs that, 
unknown to Dumbledore, had been working at Hogwarts and were either 
put in Azkaban or killed by Aurors.  (We know that during GoF, Barty 
Crouch fooled Dumbledore for a full year.  So, a DE teaching at 
Hogwarts is a definite possibility.)

Casualties among Hogwarts faculty would explain why Snape became a 
Hogwarts' professor and Head of House at such a young age -- that and 
his natural brilliance, of course!

Ok, and by the way, I really liked your post #105925, Carol!

-- JudySerenity, posting here for the first time in ages