[HPforGrownups] many replies to many posts from many people, ALL SPOILERS

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 135938

Merrylinks wrote:
>My take on this is that Snape's mother probably made many of the
>annotations to the Potions textbook. It was originally hers, after
>all. This would also explain why Hermione thought the notes had been
>written by a female. This doesn't mean that Snape is a potions
>dunderhead, just that he wasn't the first in the family to make
>creative modifications to the recipes in the book.

Don't know about that. It might just have been an old book at the time the
young Snape had it.

I think Harry was just unobservant (as was I when I read HBP for the first
time!)

He saw Snape's "small, cramped" handwriting in the Pensieve scene the year
before and, like us, should have recognised it straight away in the Potions
book...

hwyl

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