[HPforGrownups] Re: The DADA job - Not Snape's cup of tea?

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 141921

gav_fiji wrote:

>>Christina
>>I don't find it a stretch to believe that Snape really *has* been
>>applying for the job all these years and has been denied it.
> 
> 
> Goddlefrood:
> 
> As I said earlier there is plenty to indicate that Snape did not 
> apply. Particularly the events of Harry's fifth year. Do you really 
> think that if Snape had applied Dumbledore would not, however 
> reluctantly, have given him the job, mostly because of his aversion 
> to Ministry interference?
> 

Yes, I do think exactly that. Dumbledore has seen that the ministry is 
hell-bent on getting Umbridge into Hogwarts. If he'd tried to bolt the 
obvious door (by filling the DADA position), he could expect her to 
enter through the window, or even to make a hole in the wall.
The person who'd send dementors after a child - do you think she is 
above trying to incapacitate one of the teachers?

It was better to let her in without having a full-blown confrontation so 
early in the year.

Irene