Why leave the book?

[B.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 137004

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wrexx1" <wrexx at h...> wrote:
> > Christina:
> > Actually, I don't think that Snape made those notes in his NEWT 
year.
> <SNIP>
>  Maybe Slughorn even saw
> > potential in young Snape from the start, saw he was bored in 
class,
> > and gave him a higher-level book for a little enrichment 
reading. 
> > Teachers did that all the time at my elementary school.
> > 
> 
> Thanks, Christina; I wondered if anybody else was thinking along 
these
> lines.
> The book was fifty years old, so it could easily have been mom's or
> Slughorn's, complete with margin doodles. Slughorn likes to adopt
> students of promise, hoping to share their future limelight, so I
> could easily envision him loaning the book to Snape, and later to 
Harry.
> That would explain why nobody else came across it during those 
twenty
> years when Slughorn was away.
> 
> Wrexx

Excellent point Wrexx - I'd not thought of Slughorn bringing that 
book with him.  Now I wonder:

>Why did he take it when he left Hogwarts and why did he bring it 
back?  

>Did DD know Slughorn had it?  

>Did he request that it be given to Harry?  

>It had to be someone else's book before Snapes if it is 50 years 
old - whose?  

>Voldermorte's notes in a book Snape found and then called himself 
the HBP?  

JKR said TR/LV was not the HBP but it still could have been TR's 
book and Snape the HBP.

BG is puzzling