[HPforGrownups] Re: The Potions Book: Is Snape *really* the HBP?

[Michael McHenry]

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Ray said:
> >   Another thing that bothers me, though ... Snape with his strict
> > interpretations of Hogwarts' rules (at least when Harry is around)
does not  strike me
> > as the kind who would write in his textbook,

colebiancardi said:
> Just because Snape is "by the book" as a teacher, doesn't mean as that
> is the way he was as a teenager.  I know I do not have the same habits
> today that I had as a kid.  


I actually never considered Snape all that much of a "by the book"
sort of guy the way you might think of McGonagle or Hermione.  He only
enforces rules strictly with regard to HP in order to torture him. 
(except when he nearly kills Malfoy with Snape's spell)  He's much
more lax with Malfoy.

However, you certainly wouldn't expect Snape to write on school
property.  The book was his property, however, and there was no reason
for him not to make notes on it.

-mgm