Why is Slughorn raving about Lily instead of Snape?

[AyanEva]

No: HPFGUIDX 133959

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Florentine Maier" 
<florentinemaier at h...> wrote:
> I find it highly peculiar that Slughorn constantly compares Harry's 
> potions ability to Lily's. Slughorn must have been teaching Snape 
too, 
> who has been in the same year as Lily. Wouldn't it make more sense if 
> Harry reminded him of Snape?
> 
> Possible theories...
> a) Snape invented the improved potions recipies but never put them 
into 
> practice in class but passed them on to Lily instead. (Highly, 
> unlikely, since Snape apparently didn't like "mudblood" Lily.)
> b) Lily found out all the potion improvements and practiced them in 
> class. Snape copied down everything she did in his book. While he had 
> been an average student, he later became a great potions master by 
> imitating Lily.
> 
> I'd love to know your opinion.
> Florentine

I know this is short (to compensate for my last long-winded post!), but 
I always thought Slughorn was going on about Lilly in order to kiss up 
to Harry. Slughorn wouldn't have raved on about how good Snape was in 
front of Harry because then he would've had even less of a chance at 
getting Harry into his little social club.


AyanEva