Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 148914

Lupinlore

> What's wrong with a soup of denial and arrogance?  Sounds like a 
> perfectly good explanation to me, and one completely in keeping with 
> what we know of Snape and the situation at Hogwarts.  In other words, 
> its utterly and completely believable. It's also completely in 
> keeping with the realities of human thought and motivation.


Right.  So, watches 14 years of profs go, including two card-carrying
minions of Voldemort killed and soul-sucked respectively, ignores this
because of his ferocious desire for the coveted DADA parking space. 
In any case, Snape=Villain=who cares!   Check.  

Well, folks, after all the replies to this subject, nothing covers
with sufficient tightness and banginess (to my *sniff* high standards,
anyways), these three basic facts:

a.  Snape has applied for the DADA job every year for 14 years
b.  Dumbledore has refused him every year
c.  Both of them (almost certainly) know there's a curse on it, a
curse placed by the most powerful Dark Wizard of his generation.

This is an important enough feature of Snape's character that it was
the FIRST THING we are told about him in the first three books.  Book
6 reveals him getting the job with an AHA EL HUGEO TWISTO!!  piece of
theater from JKR.  And, just in case anyone needs a little more canon
on what is involved with getting the DADA job:


    "Well, there's one good thing," [Harry] said savagely, Snape'll be
 gone  by the end of the year[...]. That job's jinxed. No one's lasted
more than a year... Quirrel actually died doing it... Personally, I'm
going to keep my fingers crossed for another death." (HBP am. ed. pg 107)

And if that's not enough foreshadowning:

    "You've had five teachers in this subject so far, I believe." 

     You believe... like you haven't watched them all come and go,    
     Snape, hoping you'd be next, Harry thought scathingly.


Harry, WAKE UP. Why would anybody be "hoping they'd be next" after all
that's happened to the DADA profs??! *thwacks Harry on head* 

You know, looking at those two lines... I'm back to Suicidal!Snape (or
Kamikaze!Snape if you prefer).  It hits every point.  It has bang.  It
has irony.  It wouldn't be out of place in a Victorian novel.  It has
a lot of potential energy to drive cool scenes.  It can generate
motion from Harry.  It can connect in interesting ways to other
Unsolved Snape Mysteries like why Dumbledore trusts him so much and
ties into the remorse thing.  And, pace Lupinlore, it's not
excessively heroic.  Ladies and Gentlemen-- THE WINNNEEEER!  

-- Sydney, holding up the scrawy, cut-scarred wrist of suicidal!Snape,
who is trying with his other hand to strangle himself with the laces
of his boxing gloves