[HPforGrownups] Re: why I'm loathe to believe that Snape is evil, evil, evil

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 138847

hickengruendler 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.

KJ writes:
   There was a reason that Dumbledore said that "it wouldn't be good for 
him" to get the DADA position. Everyone assumed that it meant that he 
might be drawn back to the dark. I think Dumbledore chooses all his 
teachers for a reason. Flitwick, because he is a half-blood, Hagrid, as 
a half-blood, Snape as an ex-deatheater, Lupin as a half-werewolf. I 
wonder why McGonnagal is there. I'll bet there is a reason. Perhaps she 
is the teacher that is married and she is also being protected. I have 
said since CoS that Dumbledore is not just a sweet little old man and 
I'll bet that JKR said he was the epitome of goodness with her tongue in 
her cheek. Noone is all good or all bad.
KJ