Here is Slytherins Theory then 😄
Credit to LS:
There are a vast number of reasons as to why Albus Dumbledore would not appoint Severus Snape to the Defense Against the Dark Arts post these past sixteen years Snape has been at Hogwarts. However, we can only speculate what these reasons in fact, are. Being the greatest, intelligent, and perhaps one of the most perplexing human beings of our time, it is hard to concoct a reasonable excuse for this ongoing refusal of the post. There are many conversations I am sure that took place between Severus and the Headmaster that we do not know about, but something apparent arose, allowing the Headmaster to trust Snape.
We may cogitate about different ideas, though. For instance, even though Severus switched sides (“at great personal risk”) before the dethroning of the Dark Lord, his knowledge of the Dark Arts is extensive…possibly too extensive to teach young pupils. Furthermore, he might consider himself above the “Ministry Approved Method” of what and what not to instruct the students in, becoming too advanced for their status. Since the many incantations Snape knows are powerful, detrimental ones, the students might abuse those spells and use them against someone whom they dislike.
Additionally, the students, once in their say, 7th or 6th years, might decide they want to join the Dark Lord, enjoying how much suffering and pain these curses cause to people. They will certainly be strong enough to. One more death eater could make the difference in the Dark Lord’s return.
One could also reason that not many people excel in potion making, and Severus’ knowledge of potion brewing is immense; he has always gotten people through their exams adequately. Common people would almost certainly know more about defensive spells than potion making, to further my opinion that a DADA teacher would be easier to hire than a potions one.
Ok well all of Hufflepuffs stuff has been sent to Rouge but I guess I should put the theroy here since you guys did...so lemme get it...should we put the potion here too?
Hufflepuff's Theroy...woot!
Three years before Harry Potter was born, there was a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher called Proffesor Irog, G.F. Irog. He used to be a death eater but Proffesor Dumbledore saved his life from Voldemort's hands. From then on Proffesor Irog became very loyal to Dumbledore and once Hogwarts had no Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Proffesor Irog was asked to take the position and he happily accepted. After a month or two Dumbledore found Proffesor Irog dead in his office. Dumbledore asked the students not to spread this news around as it would scare more people and cause more questioning and problems for the school. Most of the students followed his wishes.
Dumbledore had suspected that Voldemort had proformed the ashkrag charm on his followers, the ashkrag charm is a very ancient charm, it works like this:
Every time the person who had this charm preformed on them uses Dark magic the person who preformed the charm will know right away where that person is, what they are thinking and what they are doing.
This leads to the present when Proffesor Snape, having much in common with Proffesor Irog, is seeking the Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching job. Dumbledore fears that the same charm had been used on new death eaters, one of those being Snape. If Dumbledore's assumptions are true many things could be at risk, Proffesor Snape's life, secrets conserning the Order of the Pheonix, and the safety of Hogwarts itself.
Ravenclaw's Entry for the Third Task
Event thought Snape is a death eater Albus Dumbledore greatly compliments him and trusts him. He is very caring and protective inside sometimes. You can see that in many cases including at the fifth book. The Order Of Phoenix, he has given Harry fake Veritaserum when Umbridge asked him to make some so she could see who was Harry talking in the fire in her office. He told the Order Of Pheonix that Harry did not come back from the Forest which made an alarm and the ones who were in the Order of Phoenix. So if not him Harry and his friends would be long dead and the prophecy Taken by Voldemort. Anyway lets get to the points it has been long known from the first book that the Defense Against The Dark Arts possesion was somehow cursed to hurt or give a reason to sack or Go away from Hogwarts to the teacher. Just look, THe proffesor at the first year was one of Voldemorts Followers and actually died. The second one was a show off,lost his memmory, and at this momment walking around St.Mungus Hospital asking everybody whats his own name. The third one turned into a Werewolf and left because of the safety of other teachers. Moody was actually fake person and the real Moody was lying in a hidden trunk. In the fifth Umbridge was a hell of a teacher which was beaten off with some Centaurs but luckily got dragged out of the woods not really hurt by Dumbeldore. So if you put Snape as the proffesor of the Defense Against The Dark Arts class something bad will happen to him. Albus Dumbeldore does not want to loose such a talented Proffesor as him so he does not let him be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
(Oops one sec let us update it a little there seems to be a grammar mistake in it..)
Event thought Snape is a death eater Albus Dumbledore greatly compliments him and trusts him. He is very caring and protective inside sometimes. You can see that in many cases including at the fifth book. The Order Of Phoenix, he has given Harry fake Veritaserum when Umbridge asked him to make some so she could see who was Harry talking in the fire in her office. He told the Order Of Pheonix that Harry did not come back from the Forest which made an alarm and the ones who were in the Order of Phoenix went to the ministry of magic and saved Harry and his friends from death. So if not him Harry and his friends would be long dead and the prophecy Taken by Voldemort. Anyway lets get to the points it has been long known from the first book that the Defense Against The Dark Arts possesion was somehow cursed to hurt or give a reason to sack or Go away from Hogwarts to the teacher. Just look, THe proffesor at the first year was one of Voldemorts Followers and actually died. The second one was a show off,lost his memmory, and at this momment walking around St.Mungus Hospital asking everybody whats his own name. The third one turned into a Werewolf and left because of the safety of other teachers. Moody was actually fake person and the real Moody was lying in a hidden trunk. In the fifth Umbridge was a hell of a teacher which was beaten off with some Centaurs but luckily got dragged out of the woods not really hurt by Dumbeldore. So if you put Snape as the proffesor of the Defense Against The Dark Arts class something bad will happen to him. Albus Dumbeldore does not want to loose such a talented Proffesor as him so he does not let him be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Gryffindor's Task 3 Entry
The reason Dumbledore trusts Snape and won’t give him the Defense Against the Dark Arts job is complex. Perhaps Dumbledore doesn’t want Snape to be tempted about going back to the dark side, thus being confronted with his past.
Snape was willing to turn in Sirius in book 3, as Lupin said: “Is a schoolboy grudge enough to put an innocent man into Azkaban?"
So, Snape still has some kind of anger. Maybe Dumbledore doesn’t want Snape as the DADA teacher because of his anger and his ever present reminder of the past.
In the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore thought that Snape was over what James did to him all those years ago and assigned Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, and later admitted that "this was an old man's mistake."
Dumbledore makes mistakes. But trusting Snape isn't one of them. True, he's a slimy butthead, but apparently he's doing SOMTHING important. And the fact that he switched sides BEFORE Voldy fell from power is something significant. Maybe he'd try to TEACH the dark arts rather than defense against them if he got the job. Dumbledore just might get desperate enough to let him have the job, but even if he did get desperate, he might keep Snape as the potions master anyway. He's really good at it apparently
Harry would definitely need an unbiased DADA teacher, because that's one subject he must do well in, considering his circumstances. Remember, Dumbledore knows that one day, Voldermorth will return and that it may the students need to be skilled in their defense against the dark arts. Just how much about the dark arts does Snape know?
It's possible that Dumbledore knows that Snape favors his own house too much and the fact that many of the other students don’t trust Snape would be against him. This stands to reason that to teach DADA, your students need to trust you. Who would want a defense teacher that they don’t trust? For all we know, they could be teaching you something wrong!
Gryffindor's Task 3 Entry
The reasoning as to why Dumbledore trusts Snape and won’t give him the Defence Against the Dark Arts job is complex. Perhaps Dumbledore doesn’t want Snape to be tempted about going back to the dark side, thus being confronted with his past. Snape was willing to turn in Sirius in book 3, as Lupin said: “Is a schoolboy grudge enough to put an innocent man into Azkaban?" So, Snape still has some kind of anger. Maybe Dumbledore doesn’t want Snape as the DADA teacher because of his anger and his ever present reminder of the past. Also, the vital life saving point for Harry is that his most powerful weapon is and was love; it was because of his mother's love that he was and is protected from Voldemort. That suggests that even Voldemort's great power can not penetrate love, so what would be most easy for it to work through? That's right, hate. Who has deep, concealed and still thriving hate? That's right, Snape...
In the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore thought that Snape was over what James did to him all those years ago and assigned Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, and later admitted that "this was an old man's mistake." Dumbledore makes mistakes. But trusting Snape isn't one of them. True, he's a slimy butthead, but apparently he's doing SOMTHING important. Plus the fact that he switched sides BEFORE Voldy fell from power is something significant unless of course Snape somehow knew that Voldemort's crusade wouldn't be successful and decided to change sides merely to save his own skin in the future and hence Dumbledore has reservations concerning his long term loyalty. Also, if Harry and Snape both have hate for each other then that could put the Order at risk. If Voldemort can work through hate (e.g. he and Harry shared visions triggered by extreme negative emotion) then it would make sense to go for the weakest link in the chain and that, with Sirius out of the way, would be Snape and Harry's distinct lack of trust and animosity towards each other because Harry is less protected around someone who doesn't like him, that someone possibly being a tool to manipulate. But even if Snape is 'good' now, maybe he'd try to TEACH the dark arts rather than defence against them if he got the job. Dumbledore just might get desperate enough to let him have the job, but even if he did get desperate, he might keep Snape as the potions master anyway. He's really good at it apparently.
It might be the case that Snape is the best Potions teacher Hogwarts has ever had and/or not as many witches/wizards may train in potions anymore. Just like in muggle society where there are shortages of teachers and students in certain subjects the same might be the case in the magical world. Plus due to the Voldemort era, there may have been an upsurge in the learning of direct (as opposed to potions which take longer) magical protection hence more people would be versed in DADA and there would be more for Dumbledore to choose from.
Perhaps the entrance of Harry Potter into Hogwarts added to doubts Dumbledore already had creating new concerns if not at least enhancing old ones. For example, Harry would definitely need an unbiased DADA teacher, because that's one subject he must do well in, considering his circumstances. Remember, Dumbledore knows that one day, Voldermort will return and that the students may need to be skilled in their defence against the dark arts. Just how much about the dark arts does Snape know and will Snape teach them properly or enough? Of course, he will have a curriculum to follow but that hasn't stopped teachers falling short of imparting knowledge before and it certainly wouldn't be unthinkable or surprising for one with a hidden agenda to somewhat 'falsify' certain facts like he did with the fake truth potion.
In addition, it's possible that Dumbledore knows that Snape favours his own house too much and the fact that many of the other students don’t trust Snape would be against him. It stands to reason that to teach DADA, your students need to trust you. Who would want a defence teacher that they don’t trust? For all we know, they could be teaching you something wrong! Teachers are supposed to be authority figures that we trust and respect, people we can turn to and have confidence in to act responsibly; and at a boarding school like Hogwarts they are the only people you have other then your friends. If Snape and Harry were to ever get past their differences or trust each other or at least Harry trust Snape it would not be impossible to worry that someday for some reason that trust might be betrayed. Snape switched sides once, he can do it again. Snape's position is also one of a unique standing and consequently, very convenient. He's mysterious and people aren't sure whether he is good, bad or just sitting on the fence. For those who don't know he's in the Order and haven't seen him help Harry, he would appear to be quite dark as well as unnecessarily rude/mean to Harry which implies that even if he isn't officially on the bad side (and some might tolerate that out of practicality) he might still in his heart be or at least be swayed back to Voldermorts side in an uprising. He's always the first Harry suspects is up to no good and all of those traits probably make him more acceptable to the families who students reside in his House. Being a former Death Eater and current not so likeable and seemingly anti-Harry person who is also apt in potions and dark arts, his presence might be a kind of 'compromise' that Dumbledore secretly keeps in order to keep the people who are still Death Eaters 'happy' - not in league with them of course, but if DD was to make Snape DADA teacher it might threaten that security and the Death Eater families might think Snape is against them by teaching students techniques to defend themselves against them, particularly Harry.
Ok now thats just plain cheating! WTF!! I dont even know how long the Theory supposed to be!
Updated version....
Event thought Snape is a death eater Albus Dumbledore greatly compliments him and trusts him. He is very caring and protective inside sometimes. You can see that in many cases including at the fifth book. The Order Of Phoenix, he has given Harry fake Veritaserum when Umbridge asked him to make some so she could see who was Harry talking in the fire in her office. He told the Order Of Pheonix that Harry did not come back from the Forest which made an alarm and the ones who were in the Order of Phoenix went to the ministry of magic and saved Harry and his friends from death. So if not him Harry and his friends would be long dead and the prophecy Taken by Voldemort. Anyway lets get to the points it has been long known from the first book that the Defense Against The Dark Arts possesion was somehow cursed to hurt or give a reason to sack or Go away from Hogwarts to the teacher. Just look, THe proffesor at the first year was one of Voldemorts Followers and actually died. The second one was a show off,lost his memmory, and at this momment walking around St.Mungus Hospital asking everybody whats his own name. The third one turned into a Werewolf and left because of the safety of other teachers. Moody was actually fake person and the real Moody was lying in a hidden trunk. In the fifth Umbridge was a hell of a teacher which was beaten off with some Centaurs but luckily got dragged out of the woods not really hurt by Dumbeldore. So if you put Snape as the proffesor of the Defense Against The Dark Arts class something bad will happen to him. Albus Dumbeldore does not want to loose such a talented Proffesor as him so he does not let him be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. There is also another explanasion. We Read in the Order Of THe phoenix that at some ocasions Harry wanted to bite, and Kill dumbeldore when he looked at him. That is because he and Voldemort are almost the same. And VOldemort has thought of a way to use Harry as a Spy on Dumbeldore... Thats why Dumbeldore didnt look at him for almost the whole time in the Order of The Phoenix. So Now what will stop Voldemort from spying again? The answer is nothing. Now imagine how furious Voldemort is when a Death Eater betrays him and left him! Well Snape did that so Voldemort will want great revenge on him. So he will use Harry to Spy on Snape and then hunt him down and kill Snape! You ask me why cant Voldemort spy on him while his in the potion Class? Well its because in Potion class Harry does not need to concetrate so much.. He does not need to focus on something exept putting ingredients into a potion. Whoever say in the next year, The sixth Students will study Unforgivable spells. So I bet Snape will again use the Imperio curse on everyone to see if they learned how to resisit it. Resisting the Imperio curse is done with much concetration. But when you use it on someone it opens up your mind! Giving Voldemort the whole picture....So this is my Theory.
Originally posted by <Tidus>
Ok now thats just plain cheating! WTF!! I dont even know how long the Theory supposed to be!
Oh please, just because you don't like it doesn't make it cheating 🙄 - none of us 'knew' how long it should be - everyone was just saying as long at it needs to be for you to get everything you want to say across. Rogue posted an unfinalised entry which hadn't been 'aprroved' unlike the rest of your Houses who'd at least had communication about it - whereas I had the finished version and I am the prefect. It was a mistake, not some scheme to outdo you. It was a mistake and if any other House had made one (which did happen to Hufflepuff in the very first challenge) then they would have been allowed to repost. But as far as I'm concerned your House and the other two Houses had multiple entries to choose from, talked about it and voted on which ones to choose - or at least there was communication and a prefect chose. We, on the other hand only just came up with our theory, which yes was bad and our fault but when it comes down to it we made a mistake and we fixed it, so quite frankly your 'updated version' isn't valid and will NOT be counted as your entry, period. Don't think that you can change valid final entries just because you don't like what another House posts - if you made a mistake, fine, but you didn't - and just in case, don't try to claim that you did just because I've said it now either. 🙄
Also - a sidenote in reference to a post you made eariler - we don't need to hear that you wrote it and want all the credit for it, it's a House effort and game. Unless some Rowling agent spots it and wants to use it hence needing you for copyright, anything you or other members do is for the House and posted under the House name. Your House will get credit for it.
Originally posted by RaventheOnly
Griffendor did not specify other then getting the point accross 😬 but apparently they had more in mind 😬
Ugh, if your House had submitted a long final entry - we wouldn't have moaned, it didn't say how long it had to be and some people take more space to explain things, big deal. We didn't have 'more in mind', you make it sound as if it was some pre-concocted notion to have the longest theory without the other Houses knowing. No, when I saw the other Houses entries I was like 'wow' those are long and I thought they were really cool as well even though admittedly I didn't read through them, I thought we wouldn't have much in comparison but so what, that's the way the cookie crumbles. But then, when it actually came down to constructing our one, a lot just came to mind and it turned out long.
This reminds me about the last challenge, one of the Ravenclaw prefects said ours was too long but nothing was said when due to the format of their entry theirs was bloody long too. The same was for us, due to the speech format - it looked longer but the content was less because if it had been written in paragraphs like theirs it would have been shorter. But when it came down to it they had a hell of alot more paragraphs then we did, format or not and the limit was 6 but neither were penalised so I don't see why the comment was made in the first place. Honestly 🙄
Originally posted by JessieSparrow
Ok well all of Hufflepuffs stuff has been sent to Rouge but I guess I should put the theroy here since you guys did...so lemme get it...should we put the potion here too?Hufflepuff's Theroy...woot!
Three years before Harry Potter was born, there was a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher called Proffesor Irog, G.F. Irog. He used to be a death eater but Proffesor Dumbledore saved his life from Voldemort's hands. From then on Proffesor Irog became very loyal to Dumbledore and once Hogwarts had no Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Proffesor Irog was asked to take the position and he happily accepted. After a month or two Dumbledore found Proffesor Irog dead in his office. Dumbledore asked the students not to spread this news around as it would scare more people and cause more questioning and problems for the school. Most of the students followed his wishes.
Dumbledore had suspected that Voldemort had proformed the ashkrag charm on his followers, the ashkrag charm is a very ancient charm, it works like this:
Every time the person who had this charm preformed on them uses Dark magic the person who preformed the charm will know right away where that person is, what they are thinking and what they are doing.
This leads to the present when Proffesor Snape, having much in common with Proffesor Irog, is seeking the Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching job. Dumbledore fears that the same charm had been used on new death eaters, one of those being Snape. If Dumbledore's assumptions are true many things could be at risk, Proffesor Snape's life, secrets conserning the Order of the Pheonix, and the safety of Hogwarts itself.
*coughs* you forgot something??? credits!! moilol just kiding, hey when do we start judging??? and jessie who's gonna judge this time, last time me and georgina both judged, do u want he same this time, if u do i can tell u how it works in our common room, and whats the judging system?
and maybe this comment might b useless but stop bugging rebelphoe, she did not cheat and gryffindor's entry is really good, and not bcoz mayb ur entries arent as good u should not bother her, and really "WHO CARES HOW LONG IT IS?!" they wanna do it long let them u guys wanna do it long too do it, coz we aint judging by whether is long or not we r judgin whether is good or bad!