Why doesn't Snape get DADA? (Was Re: James, a paragon of virtue?)

[mommystery2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 123681


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
Potions Master' itself is probably more likely referring to 
> the institutional position than to any outside certification or 
> especial skills.  I myself doubt that it is Snape's special 
> irreplacable Potions skills that keep Dumbledore from letting him 
> have DADA.  He's not exactly a model pedagogue, although we have 
> hints that he gets results.  [High standards are not a de facto 
> confirmation that he gets said results, after all.]

I think there has to be some very important skills in Potions or else 
anyone could do it.  And I do think he has some outside 
certification.  Most of the professors have been there for years, the 
DADA position being the exception.  The reason (in my view) for that 
is because JKR needs that position empty every year to introduce an 
important character.  Lupin's telling Harry that the Wolfsbane potion 
isn't easy to make does tell a lot about Snape's skills.  If anyone 
could do it he could buy it at Diagon Alley.

And if Snape brought his high standards from Potions to DADA, just 
think how skilled the students would be.

But why does Dumbledore let him teach the classes when Lupin is 
unable, but not trust him to teach it full-time?  Either it will 
bring out the worst in him or it won't, but why give him the 
temptation?  There's more to that story than meets the eye!

Ces