The Potions Book: Is Snape *really* the HBP?

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Brief Chronicles wrote:
 
> I also would like to say that I felt her lack of proper 
> foreshadowing regarding the identity of the HBP was to the point of
> being unfair to the reader.

Really?  I suspected Snape as soon as I saw the HBP was involved in 
Harry's life via a Potions textbook, but I wasn't sure that JKR would 
have him figure in 2 subplots in the book.

The other area where a big clue is dropped is when Harry hexes Draco 
with the curse that cuts him up and Snape doesn't ask Harry what spell 
he cast--he immediately recognizes it and fixes Draco up.  He 
recognizes it b/c he invented it.  Also the way he reads Harry's mind 
is IMO very pointed toward the textbook.

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