Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 148977

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

True, if there IS indeed a curse, it's hard to see how Snape could 
hope to  break it and not run afoul of Voldy.  It seems more likely 
that he would have thought that Voldy would have removed the curse 
voluntarily.  But then why was he applying during years when Voldy 
wasn't around to remove the curse?



> 
> And I think JKR intends the curse to be at the forefront, because,
> first, (sob!!) she hardly showed us any of Snape's DADA's classes, 
so
> they can't have been that interesting, 

Oh, I don't know.  I didn't think we saw much less of Snape than we 
ever had.  He is still up to his child-abusing ways.  I don't recall 
that we saw less of him as a DADA teacher than we ever had as a 
potions teacher.


> I mean, how many people thought Snape ACTUALLY wanted the job before
> that Umbrige scene?  And let's face it, Snape trots it right out on
> cue in Spinners End.
> 
> Soooo... boring... can't... focus.. on theory....

I'll agree it would be boring outcome.  It would also be so contrived 
and silly as to merit a Golden Rasberry (which differs from a regular 
rasberry primarily in color and slightly in texture).


> I'm trying to find a Grand Unified Snape Theory so that all the
> remaining stuff-- why d-dore trusts him, and what motivates him
> generally-- can be summed up in one fell swoop, if only to spare the
> poor old Snape-haters all that lingering lovingly over him.
> 

Good luck with that one.  It would be good to avoid the loving 
lingering looks, I admit.  I've never understood why anybody cares 
about the child abuser's motivations.  But I doubt a grand unified 
theory of Snape (GUTS, I suppose) is possible.  Like much else in the 
Potterverse, I suspect we will find much that seems to be 
contradictory is ... well... contradictory, and much that seems to be 
just plot holes will remain just plot holes.


Lupinlore