Back to the cursed DADA-job

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 166507

> Lynn quoting from canon and commenting:

> "Now...how long have you been teaching at Hogwarts?" 
she asked, her quill poised over her clipboard.
"Fourteen years" Snape replied. His expression was 
unfathomable. Harry added a few drops to his potion; it 
hissed menacingly and turned from turquoise to orange.
"You applied first for the Defense Against the Dark Arts 
post, I believe?" Professor Umbridge asked Snape.
"Yes," said Snape quietly.
"But you were unsucessful?"
Snape's lip curled.
"Obviously."
Professor Umbridge scribbled on her clipboard.
"And you have applied regularly for the Defense Against 
the Dark Arts post since you first joined the school, I 
believe?"
"Yes," said Snape quietly, barely moving his lips.  He 
looked very angry.
(Chap. 17, pps. 363-364 Am. ed.)
  
> So I would think that the only way this was not the case 
would be if Snape and DD deliberately misled people into 
believing Snape kept applying. I believe Snape did want the 
job abd DD kept him from it because Snape was too valuable 
to be a victim of the curse.

Goddlefrood:

There is a great deal of misdirection throughout the series.

This point in respect of Snape's utterances to Umbridge has
been addressed here before, for Blue Peter fans, here's one
I made earlier:

> Goddlefrood from the dim mists of time:

Unless of course Snape is being less than honest and covering 
the real reason he has not become DADA teacher. As we know 
Snape follows orders and he would have to apply for the DADA 
post if LV wanted him to. Or did LV want him to? After all LV 
would know of his own curse on the position and only if he 
anticipated Snape staying only a year or he lifted the curse 
could Snape last beyond a year in the post. I contend that 
Snape is not being entirely truthful. The passage does not 
say, however, that Snape applied every year since he joined 
the staff, only that he has applied regularly. To have applied 
every year would be inconsistent with the matters noted in 
this article.

Even to say he applied regularly is a bit of a stretch as 
clearly, from Harry's year 2 until his year 5 (four full 
years), Snape probably did not apply for the job.

From:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/141829

Goddlefrood firmly fixed now in the present:

I maintain this view, while appreciating that otheres hold a
different position.

What it may mean is another story and would not necessarily
support a reading of Severus that puts him in DD's camp.

"Think for yourselves and allow others the privilege to do so
too." - Voltaire, Essay on Understanding

Ta ra for now

Goddlefrood