Lily and Snape

[Auria]

No: HPFGUIDX 140380

> Also, that would mean Lily came up with Sectumsempra, and the other 
curses 
> Snape claims are his own to Harry.
> 
> Personally, if there was any secret helping going on, I'd find it 
much 
> funnier if it was Lily getting help from Snape.  After all, 
Slughorn thinks 
> Harry is a Potions genius too when he totally is not.  Maybe he 
really did 
> inherit his mother's talent when he inherited teen!Snape's help.
> 
> -m

Auria writes:
As I wrote in an earlier message, why does everyone assume that Snape 
only took notes from one source, or that he made them ALL himself?  
It could be a mixture of both! Its possible that Lily was also good 
at potions, that Snape not only made notes using his own intellect 
but also wrote down tips taken from other students?  Or perhaps they 
even worked together at times, swopping ideas? Snape perhaps later 
became more involved in the dark arts and started meddling with stuff 
like Sectum Sempra.  This doesn't detract from the fact that Lily was 
good at potions.  I dont buy the argument that Slughorn was just 
saying that to butter Harry up. Whether Snape was also good at the 
time of being a student, or whether he gradually learnt and then 
found his own genius later on is what we should be debating.
Auria