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

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 135421

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "demetra1225" <tzakis1225 at n...> 
wrote:
> --- 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


Doddie here:

I do not think she was misleading at all.  DD doesn't say he trusts 
Snape with his life as he does with Hagrid...He states that he trusts 
Snape!

I think he trusts Snape to be Snape!  I think DD trusts that Snape 
will do the easy thing rather than the right thing.  I also believe 
that DD trusts Snape to look out for Snape.  I believe DD trusts 
Snape to be a competent teacher--but doesn't trust him to be a 
good/wonderful teacher. DD trusts Snape to do the self-serving and 
even perhaps wrong thing.  I think DD is an extremely accomplished 
leguimens--perhaps even moreso than Voldemort. (Hence in HBP DD 
states he always watched Tom Riddle closely and T.Riddle could never 
charm DD as he did with all of his other professors.)  If Dumbledore 
always suspected Tom Riddle, and always saw through Tom Riddle.  Then 
one doesn't need a great leap of faith to think or believe Dumbledore 
knows exactly what Snape is up to!

Doddie.