CHAPDISC: HBP9, The Half-Blood Prince

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 147735

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
<snip>
> I think it's hugely important that Harry met the young Severus 
Snape 
> without realizing that was who he was meeting.  He found the young 
> Snape to be someone he related to (as he does in the pensieve 
scene 
> in OotP, interestingly enough) and someone he could rely on to 
> provide clear and useful advice.  Something I believe he's going 
to 
> need to recognize about adult Snape if he has a hope of defeating 
> Voldemort.  We also get the anvil dropping of Harry and Snape 
being 
> such similar people.  And I'm sure it's a hint that the "half-
blood 
> Prince" is Snape.
<snip>

Something that I'd never really thought of before (or 
heard...although I'm sure someone had thought of it before) is that 
Harry meets young Snape in a way that is highly similar to how he 
first meets the young Marauders. Harry meets young! Snape though the 
Half-Blood Prince's potions book, which highlights the skill and 
knowledge of magic that the Prince possessed, and Harry meets the 
Marauders though the Marauders Map, which highlights their skills 
and understanding of magic. Oddly enough both draw the disapproval 
of Hermione and Harry uses them both for less then honest means. 
Interesting.

Quick_Silver (who is endlessly interested in the Marauder's Map)