Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? WAS: Re: Snape again

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No: HPFGUIDX 148806

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at ...> 
wrote:
<snip>
> Zgirnius' take on it in 147014 is good, Dumbledore needed a way to 
> get Snape out of Hogwarts without Voldemort suspecting.
> 
> Favorite theories aside though, JKR's answer says to me the UV was 
> Snape's own 'worst' doing, influenced by the DADA curse. In fact, 
we 
> may have learned all there is to know! Maybe seeing the UV and 
> finding out there really is a DADA curse is all we'll get, except 
> possibly finding out Voldemort had a hand in there somewhere. 
> 
> Still, the idea Snape's hubris & the DADA curse trapped him in the 
> UV and brought down Dumbledore with him is just so.....Snape. HE 
is 
> jinxed. Harry may be wrong about this one, it may be the people 
> Snape *loves* who end up dead, and because of his own costly 
> mistakes.
> 
> Jen
>

The idea that it was Snape's mistakes that brought about the debacle 
in HBP along with a helping hand from Voldemort (perhaps) is, IMO, 
perhaps the most...compelling, interesting, insert other word 
here...outcome of the events of HBP. It makes Snape into a truly 
tragic figure in a way that him being DDM!Snape (with a master plan) 
or ESE!Snape can't really present. It also makes it...easier on 
Harry to come to terms with what Snape did because Snape allowed his 
pride and the cunning of Lord Voldemort to bring about the events. 
In a way it's like Ginny in CoS and like Dumbledore said "older and 
more experienced wizards have been hoodwinked by Lord Voldemort." (I 
find there's a lot of cross over between CoS and HBP)

What's more it seems to fit with the whole Marauders/Snape thing 
where in the end they're their own worst enemies. Sirius and James 
certainly paid for their mistake about Peter quite dearly. 

Although I'll admit that I'm biased...I love the idea of Snape 
having no clue at the end of HBP what he's going to do. The idea 
that Dumbledore had some sort of plan bothers me because 1) the 
Harry and Snape being forced to work together was done in OotP (ask 
Sirius how that turned out), and 2) both Harry and Snape need to 
become independent of Dumbledore. The whole concept of forcing 
people that hate one another to work together doesn't seem to hold 
after OotP...Dumbledore's attempts with Sirius and Snape and Snape 
and Harry both seem to fall flat. The idea of independence from 
Dumbledore appeals to me because Harry has to make his own choices 
now and for most of his adult life Snape has been in the shadow of 
Dumbledore (in many different ways)...both are things that I think 
have limited the growth of Harry and Snape. In many ways I think 
that Dumbledore constantly insisting on Snape's trustworthiness was 
a bad thing because it interfered with the natural development of a 
relationship between the two.

Quick_Silver