Snape and the DADA Job

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 157774

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cyril A Fernandes" <caaf at ...>
wrote:
>
> 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
 The thought that he did not want to give Snape the job earlier was
> because he did not believe that Snape would be able to control his
> feeling f> 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.


Renee:

Going off on a tangent: I wonder if DD told any of the others he hired
for the job that it was cursed? It's hard to imagine he did, because
in that case very few people would have accepted the job, and Hogwarts
would possibly have been without a DADA teacher for years on end.

On the other hand, not mentioning the curse does seem unfair towards
the prospective teachers and is perhaps not quite compatible with
being the epitome of goodness. 

Or is it that the curse won't affect you if you are flawless, without
weaknesses and secrets, so that if you fall victim to it, it will be
your own fault?

(In which case I'm reminded of the doctrine of Original Sin: you're
born with it, yet if you sin, you're still responsible.)


Renee