Maybe Snape really is DDM!

[cdayr]

No: HPFGUIDX 163646

> Chancie:
> 
> Jk has bombarded us with the "DADA teacher 
> position is cursed" thing from the first book.  Could 
> she have meant this as a clue?  I think we all find it
> hard to believe that Dumbledore would actually 
> beg for his life.  So maybe it's true that Dumbledore
> was begging to be killed and that is Snape's punishment
> from the curse.  What I mean by that is if Snapes true
> goal was to kill Dumbledore, wouldn't that have gone
> against the curse?  He would have gotten what he 
> wanted-that's not a curse that's a blessing!  Does 
> that along with the other circumstantial evidence 
> PROVE that Snape is DDM?
> 
> Does that make any since or have the past few months
> of no sleep finally made me loose my mind?
> 

CDR:

You make sense to me!
I remember the horrid feeling in the pit of my stomach that I got 
when I read that Snape would finally get the DADA position in HBP. I 
felt slapped. It was an ominous sign for Snape. This was based on 
the, as you say, bombardment from JKR that no good ever comes to the 
DADA teacher, and the knowledge that Snape was going to have to 
leave Hogwarts by the end of the book.  (Of course, DD knows this as 
well, and I can only assume Snape must also have known. Either DD 
told him, or 15 years is long enough to see a pattern. Can anyone 
point 
me to a thread/threads concerning why Snape would accept this 
obviously cursed position? Or any ideas? To me it leads right back 
to a "big plan" with DD, but I'd love other ideas.)
 
The issue brought up for me by your post is: What is the goal of the 
DADA curse? I'm sure this has been brought up before, but here is my 
view.

Two choices: 

1. The curse just makes sure whoever is in the job is gone by the 
end of the year through whatever means necessary.

2. The curse actively turns against the person in the position, not 
only making them lose their job, but making them miserable, harming 
them.

IMO, there is quite a bit of evidence to point to choice #2 as the 
more possible action of the curse. The oft-cited list of past DADA 
teachers is the main evidence: Quirrell- dead, Lockhart- mad, Lupin- 
jobless, penniless, laws passed against him, Moody- 9 months in 
trunk, Umbridge- disturbing interlude with the centaurs. I have to 
say, though, the effect of the curse in these five people is not 
equal. Certainly Quirrell got the worst of it, and really in the 
end, Moody is basically the same now as he was before. So is 
Umbridge. How can these differences be explained? 

If choice #2 is the effect of the curse, then Snape killing DD would 
have to be an action which is repelent to him or otherwise 
traumatizes him. He has to leave the school in bad shape, harmed in 
some way.  

On the flip side, there are many other cursed DADA teachers that we 
know nothing about. Perhaps some of them just got better job offers 
or won the lottery or needed to care for a sick uncle in Canada. For 
all we know, the curse is fine with the person being happy, as long 
as they LEAVE (choice #1).

I say that, and it is possible, but I don't believe it at all. I 
think Voldemort would have cast a curse that stings. And for Snape 
to be stung as he leaves the job, he would have to be DDM. SO 
basically, I totally agree with you.

One small opinion from,
CDR (still working on the New Year's Resolution to be brave and post)