Snape again

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 148757

> Arlene:
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> It is an interesting thought to think that the DA position may NOT 
> be cursed. However, 14 years (I believe) is a bit much for Every 
> teacher to come and go within one year when the teachers in the 
> other positions have been there as much as 30 years. 
> 

Longer than 14, actually.  It would be at least 20, I would guess, as 
DD refused Voldy the position before he ascended as Dark Lord the 
first time.  Having said that, once again I believe we are going on 
pure speculation and circumstantial evidence, and we do have at least 
one example of a person, Quirrell, who held the position for more 
than one year, albeit his years were not, evidently, consecutive.

But all this raises another interesting question:  If the position is 
probably cursed, why on Earth does Snape want it so badly?  Is he 
faking his desire?  We have no evidence for that, indeed all the 
evidence we have including the application records cited by Umbridge 
show Snape has wanted the position badly for many years. Yet Snape 
hardly seems the type to to commit professional suicide for the sake 
of a principle.  Does Snape dismiss the evidence of the curse as so 
much hooey?  Does Snape believe he could remove the curse himself?  
If he's supposed to be Voldy's man tampering with Voldy's curse 
wouldn't endear him.  Does Snape think that Voldy will remove the 
curse once he, at least supposedly Voldy's man, is in the job?  It's 
true if there IS in fact a curse it's hard to know why DD would give 
Snape the job, but it's even harder to know why Snape would WANT a 
cursed job over his entire career at Hogwarts (evidently at least 14 
years).  It's especially hard to know why he would be jealous of 
Lupin getting the job.  Given the situation with the prank, it would 
be logical for Snape to be gloating over Lupin's predicament and 
waiting eagerly for the Snape to work Lupin's comeuppance.  Yet all 
the evidence we have is that Snape was extremely jealous and annoyed, 
and that he believed Lupin had received a valuable prize that rightly 
belonged to him, Snape.


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