[HPforGrownups] Snape and the DADA Job

[fair wynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 157745



>Cyril here:

>The question is "Why does Snape want the DADA job so bad?" He has been
>wanting this from the first year. He even mentioned it to Umbridge
>during inspection in OOTP.
>
>He *most* probably knows about the curse on the job - nothing in canon
>to directly support this assumption - but even the students are
>noticing that the job is not safe - and DD clearly told Harry in HBP
>that the job was cursed by LV (incl the trip down Pensieve lane)... so
>he also most probably told Snape.

wynnleaf
My guess is that Snape doesn't really try to get the DADA job -- he just 
allows the rumour to continue for reasons of his own, or maybe Dumbledore's. 
  He must know the job is cursed.  It was even cursed when he was a student. 
  He might truly wish he could teach it, probably because he's got some 
strong opinions about DADA, and even Dumbledore admits Snape knows a whole 
lot about the Dark Arts.  But I doubt if he was actively trying to get a 
cursed job.

Once he got the position, he apparently put a lot into it.  We certainly 
never heard about any other DADA teacher teaching nonverbal spells.  After 
all, Hermione didn't apparently know about nonverbals at the end of OOTP, 
when she tried to stop a Death Eater by silencing him -- the attempt 
backfired on her.  I wonder if either the 6th or 7th years during OOTP 
(those taught by Umbridge and Crouch, Jr.) got nonverbal spell work, if 5th 
year Hermione didn't seem to know about it.

wynnleaf

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