Inconsistencies in the DADA position

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No: HPFGUIDX 131546

Rosered wrote: 
> So these three things do not add up.  Taking quotes one and two 
> together, it would seem that DD is specifically keeping Snape from 
> the DADA position.  But quotes one and three directly contradict 
one 
> another.  In addition, if we assume that Snape was telling the 
truth 
> about applying every year but Hagrid was wrong in quote three, what 
> would make DD think that Lockhart would be a more suitable 
candidate 
> than Snape?  I know characters will sometimes give misleading 
> information, but something about this really bugs me and I can't 
put 
> my finger on what it is.  Any thoughts?
> 
> 
Potioncat:

Hagrid doesn't always know as much as he thinks he does. Or certainly 
isn't correct in what he knows.

Regularly isn't the same as yearly.

OTOH, he may have applied yearly until Longbottom arrived. Then the 
potential of taking a trip to the hospital wing in a matchbox may 
have made potions look better.

My personal, I belive so but can't prove it opinion: He isn't 
interested in the DADA position. He was misleading Umbridge. If 
nothing else, maybe he wanted her to think he wanted her job and any 
ill feeling he showed was envy of her job, not loyalty to DD.

Potioncat