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

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 135692

desastreuse:
 
It might be possible, as well, that DD realized that the DADA
position had been jinxed at the time Snape inquired about it, and, 
because DD didn't want to *lose* Snape, he didn't give him the 
position in order to shield him.

houyhnhnm:

And if Dumbledore knows, by mid-July, that a year is all he and Snape
have left, then it would make sense to go ahead and give him the
position for which he is clearly well qualified.