Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 148897

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:

First of all, you have Alla miscited as myself in what I've snipped.  
I take care in crafting my posts (well, okay, five minutes), I want 
my credit! =)

> Snape wanting the DADA job because he wants the DADA job and he
> doesn't care about the curse ISN'T AN EXPLANATION,  simple or
> otherwise.

It may not be an *explanation* in the sense that you want it, no, but 
it is certainly potentially illustrative of character at a very 
simple level, one that doesn't need much more than that.  "He wants 
it because he thinks it's his rightful position" isn't much more, 
close enough for me to barely call it different, but it may well be 
all we get.

<snip>

> So. WHAT principle is it that Snape wants to commit professional
> suicide for?

I think that's a good question, although I'm not sure it's going to 
be the right question.

<snip>

> I mean, it's like not trusting someone to teach a grade school Drug 
> Awareness course, but trusting them to go into deep cover with a 
> bunch of heavy-using drug dealers. 

True, but Snape as a spy is not Snape in direct proximity to the 
students, is he?  Perhaps Dumbledore thinks that Snape could actually 
better handle that sort of stuff than being in the position of 
power.  I don't know, but it could almost fly.  And I will simply 
reiterate the tiresome point that consistency depends on perspective 
and what standards you define it with.

-Nora pretty much wastes a post just because she, umm, really hates 
being misattributed.  Look before you leap?