How much of the Prophecy Snape heard WAS: Dumbledore Does Lie

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 159019

 
> Hickengruendler: 
r maybe she didn't know, for which position Snape wanted to 
> apply. Maybe she thought he was a rival for the post as Divination 
> teacher, or the next in line for the post as DADA teacher, since it 
> was likely that the current candidate would leave as well. After all, 
> she might not necessary have known him him at this time and didn't 
> know, which subjects he excels at.


Potioncat:
If Trelawney's comments in OoP are accurate, she was hired in October. 
So we're talking about 4--6 weeks into term. (I've forgotten now, why I 
think it's the first part of October.) If she is applying for a new 
opening, then perhaps something had recently happened to the previous 
teacher. There's a chance that he had simply not replaced the teacher 
who retired at the end of the previous year. Was she trying to convince 
him to restore the subject?

It's remotely possible that the DADA position had not been filled at 
all. The war with LV had started and perhaps people were too fearful to 
apply; or really good DADA types were occupied with fighting LV. It's 
possible that both teachers had been killed in the fight with LV. 

I think LV wanted Snape at Hogwarts and had him apply every year until 
he got in. It would explain how Snape was able to slip out of some DE 
work. He had to keep his reputation clean.