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...no one else would ever take the job... ...as a student at Hogwarts...he was REALLY good at Defense Against the Dark Arts...work for Voldemort...[/b]
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Sorry, that doesn't answer the main question:
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...Does he not believe in the curse? Or does he think he can defeat it?
...What reason would there be for intentionally putting someone into (or taking) a cursed position? Is it relevant to the nature of Snape/Dumbledore and the ultimate outcome of the plot?[/b]
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That has crossed my mind. I don't know why I never said it.
One answer as to why Snape would take it is that he didn't know about the curse. I doubt that Dumbledore ever told anyone before he told Harry. The rumored curse may seem "obvious," but if it was never confirmed, Snape might have shrugged it off.
Why would Dumbledore put him in a cursed position? Well, he has been putting pawns in that spot for a half-century. Maybe, with the big war going on, he expected Snape to hang out more often with Voldemort and his little friends anyway.
A more likely scenerio --- It was part of the big cover game.
Not just the recent plot with Snape & Dumbledore faking the murder,
although that is part of it, but THE BIG COVER GAME.
I've said before, somewhere, that I believe Snape has been faking it all along.
I forget how I said it -- let me go and see if I can find it.