why I'm loathe to believe that Snape is evil, evil, evil

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 138802

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler"
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "colebiancardi" <muellem at b...>
> wrote:
> The reason why DD didn't offer Snape the DADA job before
> > was that DD knew the post was cursed. We just discovered that in
> HBP,
> > but DD knew about this for a long time.
>
> Hickengruendler:
>
> But if this was true, it would be really awful from Dumbledore to
hire
> all those other people. Dumbledore had hired a new teacher each year
> since Voldemort applied for the job. And the idea that "the epitome
of
> goodness" does not want to sacrifice Snape, but is perfectly ready
to
> get all those other people in danger does not sit well with me.

It doesn't sit well with me, either. However, DD did state to Harry
that ever since Riddle applied for the DADA job & was turned down,
they haven't been able to keep someone in that position for more than
a year. Perhaps, before the rise of Voldemort began with QuirrelMort,
the DADA teachers just left on their own accord and nothing *bad*
happened to them. They just didn't like the job. However, once Voldy
started to come back, perhaps the danger of taking on the position of
the DADA job was more apparent. Although, 2 of the 5 teachers that
had the post were in line with Voldemort(Quirrell & Fake!Mad-Eye) died
and the other three (Lockheart ,Lupin & Umbridge) did not. The ones in
the DE camp were killed and the other three were just booted out of
Hogwarts, although Lockheart has a bit of a memory problem, he is not
dead. Hmmm...sounds like Snape was also booted out of Hogwarts(in a
way). He was not killed. Am I onto something here?

Anyway, DD knew the job was cursed - he stated it to Harry.

colebiancardi