"I am always happy to entertain a substitute." Even as he said it, Snape wondered if he wasn't entirely off track. Rodolphus was being more than usually coy - surely this level of evasiveness wouldn't be warranted if he was merely to be returned to his former position.
"We're taking Hogwarts, then," he said, casually flipping a page. "Very sensible. Education has been on the decline for years, and I suppose it can't all be blamed on the increasing idiocy of youth." He could think of the position he'd most like, of course ...