Academic dishonesty.

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 139529

> Finwitch:
> I also find it interesting that when following instructions young SS 
> wrote down, Harry's doing a *better* job than Severus did those days? 
> I find that rather odd. And why did Hermione say it's a woman's 
> writing? Why didn't any of them recognise the hand-writing? WAS it 
> truly SS who wrote them?
> 
> Makes me think... maybe it *was* Lily who wrote those notes, trying 
> to help young Severus... and Harry could read them because he has 
> Lily's eyes.. Slughorn keeps on about Lily!
zgirnius:
Lily wrote them, (and kept writing them all year) and Snape couldn't 
read them? That wasn't too helpful...

I think the explanation might be a lot simpler. Young Severus decided 
his book's instructions needed inprovement after his first attemps (in 
class) did not work as well as Severus would have liked. So the first 
attempts Sluggie remembers as excerllent, though not quite as good as 
Harry's, would not have been as good as the results that can be gotten 
using the improvements.