Snape and Lily in potions

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 135947

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.

vmonte:
I agree with you! LOL!
I think that it takes a little more than memorizing books and 
practicing spells and potions to make you a gifted wizard. Sure, you 
are going to be clever and better than the average wizard, but that 
alone will not make you a "Mozart." 

This is (IMO) why Slughorn fondly remembers Lily, because she was a 
Mozart with potions.

Harry has this kind of "natural born" talent when it comes to DADA.
He has natural ability, something that cannot be taught. 

During SS/PS Hermione figured out Snape's potion test because it had 
nothing really to do with potions, it was really a logic test. And 
Hermione figured it out because she and Snape are similar thinkers.

I loved how Slughorn mentions in HBP that Hermione gave the correct 
answer to a question by basically dictating what she had memorized in 
the textbook. 

Why do you suppose Slughorn would use a textbook that is obviously 
lousy? It's because it takes something more than book smarts to be a 
truly gifted potions master (I'm sure he says this also). 

Snape knew a lot of dark magic before he even started Hogwarts. 
I think that he learned it from reading his mothers books. 

I hope that Snape was not "in lust" of Lily (I do not say love 
because I don't think he's capable of it). Snape likes to lord power 
over people. It would be just like him to covet Lily because she is 
James's girl, but to treat her abusively like his father treated his 
mother. 

Snape learned a lot from his parents...but nothing good.

Vivian