[HPforGrownups] Re: Why does Dumbledore make Snape DADA teacher?

[Kamil]

No: HPFGUIDX 158494

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So I'm the only one who thought that Dumbledore moved Snape to DADA and
hired Professor Slughorn to teach Potions simply so Harry could take
NEWT-level Potions? Thereby allowing Harry to keep his hopes of someday
becoming an Auror intact for at least one more year?

Just me then? Okay, figures. <g>

Honestly though, at the time it was my first thought; Snape would not have
allowed Harry to continue on in Potions due to his not achieving the proper
mark on his OWLS, but with Slughorn there he was free to do so. And he did,
of course, thereby learning many useful (and a few questionable) things.

Granted, most of the ideas put forward in this thread make a great deal of
sense and I'm sure they factored into Dumbledore's decision-making process,
but I also feel allowing Harry to carry on with Potions another year played
a part as well.

*waves hello to the list*
-- 
Kamil
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. --Albert
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