Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 148990

> >>Magpie:
> > <snip>
> > Sydney's alternate name of "Kamikaze" Snape makes all the       
> > difference.  A regular suicide may be someone who feels sorry    
> > for himself and hangs himself in despair hoping everyone
> > will be sorry now.  But I think a different mindset goes into    
> > being a kamikaze (or a terrorist bomber).  That's someone       
> > wanting to die for a cause--or as a final gesture to the enemy.

> >>Sydney: 
> Yeah, I'm sorry-- kamizake!Snape IS much more illustrative of what 
> I have in mind-- I mean, if Snape just plain wanted to off himself,
> isn't he, like, one of the world's foremost experts on poisons or
> something?  I think either he's made a promise to D-dore not to   
> take his own life, so he needs somebody else (or, like, a curse)   
> to do it for him, or it's a "dagnab it, just let me stop this     
> spying crap and take a run at these guys" thing (although         
> a "they'll all be sorry when they find out" element is            
> irresistibly Snapey *hugs Snape*).
> <snip>

Betsy Hp
The question this raises for me though, why apply *every single 
year*?  If Snape realizes that Harry is the key to totally 
destroying Voldemort why would he choose to pull his kamikaze move 
when Harry's like, six?  Wouldn't that be a waste of his sacrifice?  
If Snape doesn't know that Harry is the key, why make his move while 
Voldemort is vapor?  What purpose would his "ultimate sacrifice" 
serve?

Snape, while quite emotional at times, is also quite logical.  
Applying for the same job, year after year after year, strikes me as 
a more reasoned than passioned move.  So I suspect there's a strong 
*reason* for his consistency.  Not that his passions wouldn't be 
engaged too, but I don't think passion alone would keep him going 
for, what, sixteen years of submitting an application.

I'm avoiding answering the question, aren't I?  Hmm, how about, 
Healer!Snape realizes there's a curse, sees that it hurts everyone 
who takes the DADA job, and *reasons* out a way to stop the curse.  
*But* the way to heal the curse involves a major sacrifice of some 
sort, and Dumbledore won't allow Snape to take the risk.

PRO: *Healer!Snape* who I love.  Plus, Snape would see the logic in 
sacrificing himself to rid Hogwarts of such a manifestation of 
Voldemort's cruelty.  Which would also give Kamikaze!Snape a good 
reason to go all kamikaze.  There's the added benifit of Snape 
willing to sacrifice himself to achieve a good that would not bring 
him undying fame in the WW (I'm not a fan of "all about personal 
glory"!Snape as I don't see much to support it).

CON: Puppetmaster!Dumbledore willing to let the nameless masses of 
former DADA instructors feel the pain of the curse in order to keep 
his number one spy safe.  (Though that *could* help explain his 
green-goo influenced monologue.)  No real tie into Harry at all.  In 
fact, Snape would be side stepping the actual take down of Voldemort 
entirely in order to undo just *one* wrong of Voldemort's.

Eh.  I tried. <g>

Betsy Hp