Am I the only one...

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 135757

 zgirnius replies:
>>And we don't 
know when the HBP wrote those notes. I mean, was he so brilliant that 
he walked into 6th year NEWT potions every day, did whatever potion 
assigned that day in a new, creative, and better way, and then in the 
spare time left in the class, wrote down notations of his improvements? 
I doubt it!!

CathyD now:
Well, we know Levicorpus was invented and well known by Snape's 5th year.  We see James, at OWL time, using it on Snape.  Lupin says, "There were a few months in my *fifth* year when you couldn't move for being hoisted into the air by your ankle."  Obviously, while our 6th years are using Advanced Potion Making for their NEWT classes, Slughorn was using it throughout the time he taught the Marauders and Snape.  Or, Snape is taking credit for a spell his mother created.

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