Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 149003


> Betsy Hp
> The question this raises for me though, why apply *every single 
> year*?  

*head... pounding...*  It's enough to make one cast furtive looks back
at boring-yet-reliable coverStory!Snape, isn't it? ;)

I think any way you slice it, the DADA application is about the
APPLICATION, not about actually getting the job.  It's something going
on BETWEEN Snape and Dumbleodore.  Whose inbox is the application
sitting in, after all?  It's not a message to anyone else (*stern look
at coverStory!Snape).   It has a sort of passive-aggressiveness about
it on both sides, no?   

Riffing off of Betsy's point here:

>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?  

Oooh, here's one.  Maybe Snape DOESN'T think Harry is the key to
totally destroying Voldemort.  Why the heck should he?  Dumbledore
himself says the prophecy doesn't mean anything except what V-mort and
Harry MAKE it mean.  And what's Harry's big Secret Weapon?  LOVE?!? 
Dude, you're Snape, okay.  And this is all being explained to you. 
And you're like, WTF? Every idiot knows love is a big weakness that
will make you SUCCUMB to Voldemort!  You don't keep YOUR heart on your
sleeve where anybody can take a potshot at it!  Oh, this is just sooo
classic Dumbledore, all about the warm and fuzzies and understanding
and some sort of claptrap about V-mort not knowing Love.  Who cares! 
I'll tell you what destroying the Dark Lord is going to be about, old
man-- it's going to be about some seriously nasty, ugly s**t, okay,
and when it comes to that, you're the guy on speeddial. 

Okay, so some bizzare thing happened with the love the first time
around where V-mort got blown up.  But why is everyone going on about
HARRY?  It had nothing to do with that snot-nosed brat.  It was LILY
who sacrificed her life and used her awesome powers of
awesomeness...(here you start to mist up but quickly regain control)--
anyways, it wasn't the kid, that's for sure.  And if you're asking me
to wait around here being a godd**n [sorry, it's hard to write Snape
without swearing] nanny to a bunch of dunderheads for twenty years
waiting for Potter to attain sufficient luvvie-wuzziness for your Plan
before I'm allowed a shot at taking down these jokers, you got another
thing coming.  

Yeah, I KNOW there's a curse on the job that outs people's dark
secrets.  Do I look like an IDIOT?  Am I funny to you?  Funny like a
clown?  [wait.. wrong movie..] Don't you see where my dark secrets
coming out could be a good thing for our side?  Because, my friend,
when I bring it, I intend to cause some serious damage.  Yeah, I could
die.  Good.  Here's my application.

What?  You want me to stick to your Love plan and hang around Hogwarts
for another year to be a spy and protect Lily's kid, who, by the way,
is not showing notable signs of extraordinary lovingness?  Well you're
not the boss of me!  Oh, wait.

Repeat yearly, fourteen times.

It's, like, every theory together!  It's kamikaze!  It's arrogant! 
It's heroic!  It's DDM! but antagonistic to Harry at the same time! 
And it's all about the Harry!

It has a nice through-line, too, because it connects backwards--
explaining Snape's jealousy of Harry and his specialness-- and
forwards-- Snape is wrong, Love IS the key to defeating Voldemort.  It
has Snape's dispute with Dumbledore on a level Snape respects-- as a
general, whose orders he would obey.  And it works with a hunch I
have, that Harry in Book 7 will not only have to find a way to
reconcile with Snape, but to lead him in a better direction.  OR, if
you're the sort of person who wants to see Snape punished, there's
even room there for Snape stubbornly sticking to his non-Love plan for
bringing down v-mort and being destroyed by it, being a lesson to
Harry in overcoming the hatred and trusting in love.  

*admires theory*  

*is suddenly frightened Jo WILL kill poor Snape without letting him
have any peace"

*oooh, so it has suspense, too!*

Yay!  That's my theory!

-- Sydney