Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 148971

> Sydney:
> Oh, I think this is totally in character for Snape, which is why I
> included it in the initial list-- it was lupinlore's 'denial what
> curse I don't see any curse I'm a pasteboard villain so I don't make
> sense but I'm so psychologically subtle at the same time that I also
> don't make sense' version that was causing me the whiplash.  
> 

Neri:
Well, this may have been Lupinlore's theory, although he may have
troubles recognizing it by now <g>, but it's certainly not my theory.

> Sydney:
> Unfortunately, this theorylet runs into the difficulty that Snape is
> still primarily a double-agent.  So he might think he can break the
> curse, but he would have some 'splainin' to do the next time he saw
> Voldemort.  

Neri:
I'm sure Voldemort didn't object to his agent at Hogwarts taking the
DADA post (he already had two previous agents in this post, so why not
Snape?). Maybe he didn't plan on Snape holding it for more then a
year, or maybe he just left it as a challenge for Snape to break the
curse, or maybe he actually told Snape how to avoid it, or maybe he
only gave him some pointers. There are many possibilities, but in any
case I don't think Snape was planning to make a public announcement
that he only succeeded in breaking the curse because he had the right
connections with the Dark Lord. If the whole WW continues to believe
that it's because Snape is a DADA genius, do you see Snape having any
problem with that?  

The thing is, we really know next to nothing about the DADA jinx and
how does it work, even now. It seems to have too few details to
consist of a proper mystery. But OTOH we do know a lot about the
characters involved, so I suspect the solution in this case will fit
the characters, rather than the characters going through an unexpected
reversal in order to fit some ingenious solution.    

> Sydney:
> I didn't put that in the orignal 'cons' list because *cough*I didn't
> think of it*cough*.  The ORIGINAL cons list was that it didn't add
> anything to the Snape/Harry dynamic, it just goes to the illustration
> of Snape's character, in which case I think JKR would have had a scene
> where's Snape's attitude to the curse was made explicit, so we could
> watch him fall with that in mind.  Arrogant!Snape would work so much
> better that way, no?  
> 

Neri:
It would, in a book named "Severus Snape and the DADA jinx". But in a
book named "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", arrogant!Snape
really doesn't require any more scenes to illustrate him. It would be
rather tedious, as he's already illustrated in practically each of his
DADA and potions lessons in the series, starting from the first. 

It seems to me that the BANG in the end of HBP was about Harry's
seeing Snape killing Dumbledore, not about arrogant!Snape getting what
he deserves for thinking he can break the DADA curse, and not even
about bringing any other Snape-and-the-DADA-jinx theory to its proper
culmination. From JKR's point of view, any of these theories can take
a number and wait for its turn to be sorted out in Book 7. While
giving us something to argue about in during the two years in between.

Neri