Spinner's End

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 156753

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> wrote:
>

> 
> And nothing supporting it except the statement of the man who ran 
> across the lawn.  How do we know it was Snape?
> 
 
and who WOULD know?  Harry asked Lupin if he knew who the Half-Blood
Prince was and Lupin didn't know - Harry told him about the old
Potions book and the spells and still Lupin didn't have a clue.  So,
it was not common knowledge on who the identity of the HBP was.

Snape knew...Snape knew because Harry used Sectumsempra on Draco -
Snape created that hex.  Snape knew because Harry was a Potion's 
genuis, something that Harry never was while Snape taught the class. 

Snape knew his old Potions book fell into Harry's hands - he knew it
because he saw it in Harry's mind.

When Harry tried the Levicorpus spell, non verbally, Snape knew.  That
is when he revealed to Harry that he was the Half-Blood Prince.  

Snape knew way too much about the spells and the book.  He only could
have known all those things if he was the author, the owner, the Half
Blood Prince.

And with his mother's maiden name being Prince, the pieces of the
puzzle fall neating into place.  

colebiancardi
(I didn't know there was any doubt that Snape is the Half-Blood Prince)