Are prodigals allowed?

[Kimberly]

Hello all - don't know if any of you remember me, or if it's really 
kosher to show up after something like 2 years, but I've been lurking 
around again since shortly before HBP was released and gobbling up 
all your wonderful theories and analyses.  Don't have a lot of real 
world Potterphiles to enthuse with, and you guys have always been the 
best, but I was without a working computer at home for awhile and 
kicked some of my obsessive habits as a result.  Looks like I was 
only in remission...

There are tons of things I'd like to ask about/comment on/"me too" 
over, but I rather don't feel I've earned the right, what with just 
showing up again.  I wonder should I request re-admittance to the 
group?  If need be I'll introduce myself again, and if there's 
penance for straying, I don't mind...

Kimberly

PS - just one thing I have to ask, in hopes you kind souls will help 
me out!  Since we know the DADA job really was jinxed after all, and 
we know Dumbledore knew it was, do you think he never bothered to 
mention that to Snape, or do you think Snape kept going for the job 
all these years even knowing it was jinxed, and why would he do 
that?  I imagine we are to assume, since Dumbledore gave Snape the 
job at last, that at least Dumbledore, if not both of them, knew this 
was Snape's last year at Hogwarts.  What that says, as always, I 
don't know.