Maybe Snape really is DDM!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 163661

Chancie wrote:
> > 
> > Jk has bombarded us with the "DADA teacher position is cursed"
thing from the first book.  Could she have meant this as a clue?
<snip> [I]f 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? <snip>

> 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.) <snip>

Carol responds:
As the author of a very long and rather notorious post on the DADA
curse, I think I can point you to some threads! None of them *proves*
that Snape is DDM, but, needless to say, I believe that he is. I'll
just link you to my own posts and you can follow the threads in either
direction (Yahoo isn't much help in reconstructing the sequence,
unfortunately) as desired. (BTW, CDR, I agree with everything you say,
including a "big plan" that involved placing Snape in the cursed DADA
position when the time was ripe for his (seeming) return to Voldemort.)

Re: Possible reason[s] for giving Snape the [DADA] job
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/135642

Why would Snape want the DADA position?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137706

The DADA jinx and its victims
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137961

Those should keep you busy for awhile!

Carol, who had that same sinking feeling when Snape was announced as
DADA teacher, especially after all the ominous imagery in the last few
sentences of "Spinner's End"