Fwd: [HPforGrownups] re:JokeShops/Patronus/Hagrid/SpinnersEnd/SWAKDEAD/Cleverest/RAB/Twins/DADA Prof

[Mira]

No: HPFGUIDX 141093


> Mira wrote :
> 
> << 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 wrote:
 
> 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.

Mira:
If by 'brings out' you understand 'brings to light',
or rather 'I will have to write about it' then yes,
but otherwise the DADA job did not bring out the worst
in those who held it, only brought that worst to our
eyes.  Lockhart was a criminal infatuated with himself
before he came to Hogwarts, Umbridge was horrible when
she worked for the Ministry too (as Remus could tell
us). The DADA job did not have to change Snape's
personality only because it was cursed.

Mira