[HPforGrownups] Snape, Umbridge, and teaching.

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 128457


--- phoenixgod2000 <jmrazo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Another point I just thought about was perhaps she was buttering up
> Snape for her future plans. I'm not quite sure about the exact
> order 
> of events in OOTP, but she seemed to use the Slytherins excessively
> as the cornerstone of her inquisition squad. It seems to me that
> the 
> first step would be to get the head of their house on her side and 
> appealing to the ego is always a good bet with someone. 
> something to think about


I doubt it.  She follows up immediately with her question about his
applying for the DADA job every year and not getting it, and then
tells him that the Ministry is interested in every teacher's
background.  Remember that about three months earlier Snape shoved
his Dark Mark-ed forearm under Cornelius Fudge's nose and we can see
what she's not so subtley hinting at.

She's not buttering him up - in this scene.  She's flexing her claws.

Magda

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