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

[northsouth17]

No: HPFGUIDX 123737


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

northsouth17:
I don't think Snape is a terrible person or anything, but I do think 
he's a dreadful teacher. I don't know that we've been shown how well 
he really passes along his subject material, and I think some 
students are probably far too stressed out in his classes to be any 
good. (Not to mention, he's a terrible teacher-figure - mean, nasty, 
openly and shamelessly biased and unfair, downright abusive. I can 
forgive Snape any amount of nasty comments and behaviour - so long as 
it's not directed at students. "I see no differece" made me like a 
Snape a *lot* less.) And I think Snape's weaknesses as a teacher 
would stand out far more in a subject like DADA, which seems to have 
a lot more student-teacher interaction. 

That said, Dumbledore seems to give his teachers very free reign as 
to how they teach their classes, (Hagrid, Trelawny, Lockhart), so I 
do think it's do with Snape-as-Snape, rather than Snape-as-teacher.  

northsouth17