Why DD might not want Snape for DADA job

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Deb in NJ wrote:

------------Um, but he's ALREADY a professor. I don't see why parents 
> would object any more strongly to a criminal teaching their children 
> DADA rather than potions. Either way, there's still a former criminal 
> teaching the kids! Maybe it's something as simple as that Snape's 
> strengths lie in potions, regardless of whether he'd rather they were 
> in DADA. 



Alice:
I think the idea was that if Dumbledore gives Snape the DADA 
position, people would want to know what qualified him for that 
post in particular.

I remember hearing someone, somewhere say something (yes, 
very specific, I know) about a JKR interview wherein she 
mentioned something about Dumbledore believing that the 
DADA position 'would bring out the worst' in Snape . . .  Does 
anyone know if any such thing has actually  been said by JKR?


Cheers,
Alice