Snape's writing

[duffypoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 136921

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...> 
wrote:
> OotP: "So, Snape had to be fifteen or sixteen, around Harry's own 
age.  His hand was flying across the parchment; he had written at 
least a foot more than his closest neighbours, and yet his writing 
was *miniscule and cramped.*"
> 
> Now, I can't find, if it's there, where the writing in Advanced 
Potion Making is described as miniscule and cramped

OK, I found it: "...he saw something scribbled along the bottom of 
the back cover in the same *small, cramped handwriting* as the 
instructions that had won him his bottle..."  

 but Hermione does say "It might have been a girl.  I think the 
handwriting looks more like a girl's than a boy's."  Ron at one 
point says Hermione's writing is small (sorry, I forget which book) 
when he's trying to get a few more inches of information for an 
essay.
> 
> But the question is, why doesn't Harry recognize the writing in 
the book as Snape's when he's seen Snape's handwriting at the time 
when Snape would have been writing in this book?  Even if Snape's 
writing now, when he writes on the blackboard, is different, Harry 
has seen the 15 yr-old Snape's writing before.  
> 
> Any ideas?  Is Snape taking credit for his Mother's work?
> 
> CathyD
> 
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