SpinnersEnd/ /DADA Prof (multi post)

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Catlady responded to a post about Spinner's End. 
> Usually what most people assume from canon is right and I am wrong
> when I assume something else, but STILL I don't understand the 
reason
> for that assumption; it seems to me quite likely that Snape bought
> that house from the Muggle world (and repaired, remodelled,
> redecorated, furnished, and hid it as a wizarding house) with his
> salary from Hogwarts. >snip< 


Potioncat:
All that buying and fixing up... would make a great TV show.

While we may be jumping to conclusions, the description of Spinner's 
End fits very well with the dark bedroom that housed a teenaged boy 
killing flies. Even the flies seem to fit. Young Snape is described 
as being like a plant which doesn't get enough sun light. (or 
something along that line.) We don't know enough, of course, to 
really determine if this was his parents' house or if he bought it 
later. I'm still surprised that Narcissa knows the way so well. 

Bella was listed as being in the gang he hung out with, of course, no 
one of Harry's gang has been to his house except Ron. So it isn't too 
farfetched to think Bella wouldn't know where Snape lived, (then or 
now.)


> 
> Catlady also responded to a post about the DADA jinx.
> > 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 countered:
> 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.

Potioncat:
JKR said that the DADA position (quote is upthread) would bring out 
the worst in Snape. That's caused all sorts of posts that wonder why 
Potions doesn't do the same thing with all the bad things you can 
brew up. Or posts comparing the situation to one of an alcoholic 
tending bar. 

But if you look at the manner in which the DADA teachers we've seen 
have fallen, you see that it does bring out the worst. And it brings 
them down by some weakness of their own. Even Mad-Eye Moody, who 
never began teaching, was actually brought down by his own paranoid 
habits which also made it easier for Crouch to impersonate him.

So, while she was telling the truth -- DD knew it would bring out the 
worst in Snape and cause him to leave Hogwarts--she was still 
misleading us a bit. 

JKR actually reminds me of Snape sometimes...or maybe he reminds me 
of her. I mean that in the best possible way, of course.