Harry and Advanced Potions

[cat_kind]

No: HPFGUIDX 131023

lupinlore:
> Secondly, will Snape be teaching potions?  The only other place he's
> likely to go, assuming he's at Hogwarts at all, is DADA.  If
> Dumbledore was worried about him in that position for so long, why
> would he give it to him now?  The midst of a war is absolutely the
> worst time to have someone in such a key position you don't have
> absolute confidence in.

catkind: Well, I could see a couple of possible ways around this. 

Firstly, the middle of a war is a time you desperately need a
competent defence teacher, especially when your prospective war hero
is in the class.  That might override Dumbledore's objection, if Snape
actually is good at Defence. 

(And DD does seem to have a lot of confidence in Snape, for whatever
reason. Apart from anything else, most of us seem to be assuming
Snape's acting as a spy, and you don't employ someone as a spy unless
you're very sure they're really on your side.)

Or it might be that DD's problem is more about Snape, as an undercover
Death Eater teaching the DEs' kids defence, being pressured into
teaching them Dark Arts too. If his cover was blown over the summer,
the problem might go away. Of course that would mean DD was already
expecting the second war from square one, but is that ruled out? 

Though to be honest I just want Snape to teach defence for all the fun
of the conflicts that would cause. 

catkind