Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 149019

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

Lupinlore:
Okay.  Now THIS I can easily see.  As you say, it allows Snape to be 
Snape and DD to be DD and Harry to be Harry without a lot of 
hypothesizing about hidden motivations and deep plots and people just 
*pretending* to be a certain thing when in fact they are something 
else.  It explains things rather nicely without relying on a lot of 
BANGS to reverse a great deal of what we already know.  It also 
accepts the facts as we know them without a lot of hypothesizing 
about DD telling lies to Harry or how Snape and DD are working 
together on some subtle and far-reaching plan in which Harry is 
merely a pawn.  You can have a Grey!Snape -- that is a Snape who 
combines some elements of DDM!Snape with true moral weakness and a 
genuine penchant for evil. You can even let some of Snape's speech 
in "Spinner's End" be true in spirit if not in letter (i.e. he really 
DOES believe that DD is naive and altogether too trusting in the 
powers of goodness and love). 


Sydney:
> 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.  
 
Lupinlore:
Well, there's really no reason you couldn't have both of these 
things.  That is you can have a Snape whose insistance on doing 
things his own way leads to the brink of utter disaster, and who is 
forced then to acknowledge (with a great deal of humiliation) that 
he's been totally in the wrong about all of this and who then has to 
follow Harry's lead.  He'd probably still end up dead -- let's face 
it, the character is entirely oriented toward the past and would be 
totally out of place in a Voldy-less world.  But he would go out with 
a nice aura of, if not exactly redemption, at least acknowledgment of 
sins.  A nice, neat, package that would pretty much satisfy everyone 
except for the most dedicated of Snapefans -- or at least that 
everyone but the most dedicated Snapefans would find acceptable with 
reservations.

My goodness.  I think this could actually work.


Lupinlore