Snape and the DADA curse.

[William Bernard]

No: HPFGUIDX 148894


    Bill here:
  >    There might be a simpler explanation for events. Suppose that DD 
  expected Slughorn to stay for only 1 year. He moved SS to DADA and 
  had Slughorn teach potions. At the end of the year, Snape would go 
  back to teaching potions and a new DADA teacher would be found, or at 
  least looked for.
  >   This takes into account the jinx that DD suspects is there, but 
  solves his problem for a year. Things just didn't work out in the 
  fashion expected.

  Zgirnius:
  I see two problems with this explanation.
  First, Slughorn probably needs to stay on. I don't think Dumbledore 
  wants him out in the world unprotected, where Voldemort mught learn 
  that he shared the Horcrux memory with Harry.

  Second, this dodge was tried already. I believe it was stated 
  explicitly that Moody was going to take the job for just a year, to 
  help out Dumbledore. Yet the curse certainly struck him. It could 
  easily affect Snape in a way that would render him unemployable by 
  the school in the following year, in any capacity. 

  Bill Again:
  But if Slughorn is such a risk, why hasn't he been at Hogwarts all along? Aftr all, DD gave ST a job, even though she's a fraud, just to keep her safe. 

  Is it more likely that DD wanted to avoid a situation in which the MoM would want to install another DADA teacher? That decree is probably still in effect and the Ministry obviously has an interest in the teachers at Hogwarts.

  I would argue that Alastor (Mad-Eye) Moody still owes DD a year of teaching. After all, all he did was lie in his trunk for a year. Barty Crouch Jr. is the one who had to deal with all the kids <grin>.

  Actually, I just want to point out that maybe things are not as convoluted and devious and well planned as some of the threads have suggested. There might have been simpler motivations.

  Bill