[HPforGrownups] Why would Snape want the DADA position? (Was: It's over, Snape is evil)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 137719

Dumbledore speaks of his mistakes. Was this the greatest mistake of
all, the one that set all the others in motion? If Snape had not taken
the DADA position, perhaps there would have been no Unbreakable Vow,
and Snape could somehow have saved Dumbledore from the poison
protecting the fake Horcrux, or prevented him from going after it at all.

Carol, noting that the villain of the book is Voldemort, not Snape,
and all the characters, including Dumbledore and Snape, are caught in
Voldemort's web



Sherry now:

i think that Snape would not have believed the jinx would affect him.  He is
just arrogant enough to think, no jinx can get the best of me. I don't even
believe there is a jinx, but if there is one, I'm smart enough to outwit it.
... I can totally believe a person of his temperament scoffing at the idea
of a jinx or believing that he could overcome it somehow.


sherry
noting that the hero of the book is Harry, not Snape, and that Snape being
ultimately on the side of good and rushing in at the last moment to save
Harry's hide would be a horrible disservice to the true hero of the books!