[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape the Half-blood?

[Olivia]

No: HPFGUIDX 44828

Marina said:
"Huh?  I'm feeling slow witted tonight -- am I missing a joke here?
Snape reads the writing on the Marauder's Map in PoA, reads one of
Rita Skeeter's articles aloud in class in GoF, writes on the
blackboard during class, etc."

No, you're not missing anything. :) I'm quite sure Snape can read. I was
just pointing out that in the post I replied to (by Melody) she didn't
mention that Snape very well could have picked up the curses he knew simply
by reading.

"As for Snape spending his childhood with his face in a book, I
suspect he did, but they would have to be magic books in order for
him to pick up all those Dark Curses.  This suggests to me that he
wasn't raised by Muggles.  Hermione didn't start reading up on magic
until after she got her Hogwarts letter, and while she did seem to
know more spells than most first-years by the time she arrived, I
don't think she could've competed with the seventh-years."

Exactly what I was trying to say. Of course, Sirius could have been
exagerrating as well.

Like I said, I wasn't very articulate. Should have slept on it first. :)
Sorry for the confusion, Marina. You ended up saying it much better than I
did.

Olivia