FF: Snape, Harry, Dumbledore, and flaws in the books

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 106391

Dzeytoun wrote:
>>So perhaps a very good answer to what should be done about Severus 
is that Dumbledore should hire another potions teacher in addition to 
Snape.<<

HunterGreen:
I'm guessing there isn't anyone. Potions is a very complex skill, and 
Snape has been mentioned at least once as being superb at. Dumbledore 
has been very stubborn about giving him the DADA job, but if there 
was another potions teacher out there would he still call upon people 
like Lockhart? Or in the case of OotP, if the MoM hadn't stepped in, 
who would he have hired? He had no one. That's always been my 
assumption about Snape, Dumbledore can't hire someone else because 
there's isn't anyone else. Putting the helpfulness of Snape outside 
teaching aside, why else would he hire an early-20s'(when he started)-
Ex DE-who hates children, to teach children?

I wonder though, if it would be possible for someone who wasn't 
accepted into Snape's Newt-level potions (or who didn't want to take 
it) to study on their own or with another student and still take the 
Newt test. Because that would probably be the best option for Harry. 
Neville, I think, is done with potions.