James, a paragon of virtue? Was: Why Do You Like Sirius?

[northsouth17]

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> >>Nora:
> >Snape is *something* enough that Dumbledore won't let him teach 
> DADA.  The question is, what how and why?<

A really excellent potions master? 

Perhaps I've never given it quite enough thought, but that's what I've 
always thought. I've always gotten the impression that Snape is not 
merely good at Potions, but downright amazing, exceptional, once-in-a-
century sort of thing. And if not, and I don't think there's anything 
in canon to say he's more than "pretty darn good", he seems to like 
it - His Potions speech in Book 1 remains one of the nicest things 
he's ever said, IMO.

I've never been able to come up with any reason why Snape would 
actually *want* the DADA position (A personal, rather thaan 
dastardly political one, that is). I mean, he really cares about 
potions! It's not like he took any particular relish in DADA when he 
did teach it in POA.

Why does Snape want to teach DADA? 
(I think it's just beacuse what he applied for/assumed he would be 
teaching way back when he first started, figuring he was just the 
man, DE experience and all, while Dumbledore figured, for percisely 
that reason, that messing about with DA all day was not the best 
thing for him (Not for his students, for him. I think he did awful 
thigns a a DE that DUmbledore was tryign to distance him from.)And 
he;s just been stubbornly reapling for the position ever since)   

--NorthSouth