Unsentimental JKR (was re: Snape Culpable and the Three-part Interview)

[demetra1225]

No: HPFGUIDX 135413

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
And yet what has JKR ever told us that's been shown to be wrong or 
even deliberately misleading? [snip]

Demetra:
The one interview comment that has always troubled me was pre-HPB.  
JKR was asked why Dumbledore won't give Snape the DADA position and 
she responded that Dumbledore felt that it might "tempt' (my word) 
Snape.  
Now, this is either a misleading statement or a huge lapse of logic.  
Are we to believe that Dumbledore would worry about temptation by 
giving Snape the DADA position, which is about *defense* against the 
Dark Arts?  The same Dumbledore who has no problem with sending Snape 
off to act as a spy amongst the DE's?  Wouldn't hanging around with 
seriously evil, Dark Arts loving DE's be more of a temptation than 
teaching a bunch of schoolkids defense?  
Or was Dumbledore's real reason that he knew the position was 
cursed?  If so, then JKR has indeed been deliberately misleading in 
an interview. 

Demetra