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[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 141059

> Mira wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforG
> rownups/message/141019 :
> 
> << JKR: Prof Snape said I'd like to be Prof of Defence Against the
> Dark Arts please and Prof Dumbledore felt it might bring out the 
worst
> in Snape >>

Catlady:
<SNIP of the whole post basically> 
> Since HBP, we now know that that was JKR's little joke -- it's a
> perfectly true statement, because the curse on the DADA chair 
brings
> out the worst in each DADA teacher.


Alla:

I am not sure we know it for a fact, actually. I could be wrong, of 
course. I remember Potioncat ( I think) making the deduction that 
this statement was a joke based on Carol's excellent essay about 
DADA jinx.

It is a strong possibility of course that DADA curse works exactly 
that way - namely by bringing out the worst in every DADA professor, 
but I don't think we know that for sure.

The only thing we know  for sure is that DADA curse makes DADA 
teachers leave after a year, IMO.

So, I think this statement may not be a joke and relate only to 
Snape.


JMO,

Alla.