The handwriting in the book (Was: Lily and Snape)

[Auria]

No: HPFGUIDX 140379

> Carol responds:
> First, it's highly unlikely that Lily (or Snape's mother, suggested by
> other posters) would invent the curses that Snape claims as his own,
> particularly Sectumsempra and its accompanying note, "for enemies,"
> and the curses are in the same handwriting as the potions hints. Both
> appear to be the product of the same ingenious mind, young Snape's:
>
Auria says:
You are making a huge assumption that everything that Snape wrote in 
his textbook is coming from one source.  No-one here seems to have 
considered the fact that MAYBE Snape picked up tips from several other 
students, perhaps other books too, as well as making some spells of his 
own. Just because Snape is now a very accomplished Potions and DADA 
teacher doesn't preclude Lily from also being good at potions.  Why 
should one exclude the other?  Snape may well have become such a good 
potions master from some of the information copied from Lily that he 
then added to from his own intellect.  Rarely does someone learn from 
only one source.
Auria