3. Snape was so obsessed with getting the Defense Against the Dark Arts job because...

Snape was so obsessed with getting the Defense Against the Dark Arts job because he knew it would be Harry's most important class, and wanted to teach him personally

I like to think that Snape was a good teacher. He was bitter, that's for sure, but that's because Griffindor's students were clearly privileged at Hogwarts.

I think I would be from Slytherin, because I value intellect and am in no way brave. I don't sympathize with everything Slytherin stands for, like R.A.B. didn't, but I understand them better.

For starters, Hermione was the only exceptional student there. Harry was more of a jock than anything. He had potential, sure, given that when presented to a certain skill, he usually got it. But he was not special. Off the top of my head, legilimens, apparition, herbology and potions were just a few things he was not good at. Except for DADA, he wasn't nothing to be proud of. Even so, he passed Snape's class to Slughorn with an Exceed expectations. Look at what he accomplished when he used the Snape's book. If they both weren't so biased against each other, Harry could have been an excellent student. I'm pretty sure that from the moment Snape started speaking, Harry just couldn't even try and listen. Proof? Hermione was perfect. She learned pretty much everything Snape taught them, even though Snape didn't like Hermione either.

Snape's grudge was against the fact that Griffindor student had a whole bunch of advantages that they did nothing to deserve. He never lied or said any bullshit towards them. He was mean and insensitive? Absolutely, but was he wrong? Most of the time, no. Hermione was a know-it-all, Harry did have nothing special about him and got in a lot of trouble like his father and his small-timers, and Rony... wasn't even worth the trouble. Granted, Malfoy and his gang was nothing better, but shit, if I'm mistaken, Crabble did learn how to use a very hard spell - I forgot the name, but it was that infinite fire thing -, even though he died from it.

Not many students were exceptional like Snape was. They were lazy, slow and ridiculously stupid. His crime was not being understanding. But given the low intellect all around, I'm surprised that he even got inside of a class at all.

Finally, remember how he trained Harry to protect his mind? Holy shit, his instructions were clear as fuck. The problem was that both him and Harry didn't want to be there in the first place. I probably wouldn't wanna hear a teacher no matter how good he was, if he was saying my father was a pig. If Harry have read about legilimens from Snape, he probably would have learned.

TL;dr: Snape's issue was personality. Given the expectations of most students about him being a demanding teacher, it was hard to learn anything. Without caring about their own touchy-touchy feelings, they could've learned a lot.

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