[HPforGrownups] Handwriting (WAS:Re: CHAPDISC, HBP 10)

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 148751


On Friday, February 24, 2006, at 04:10 AM, latha279 wrote:
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> brady:
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> On the issue of the handwriting, I have asked this same question
> before without getting any replies. Harry has seen Snape write his
> exam. He could see that the handwriting was cramped, small and he
> wrote a lot of matter. How is it that he didn't place the exam
> handwriting and the HBP book writing together? At least a faint -
> "I have seen this writing before...but where?" kind of contemplation
> would have been more suspenseful in HBP than this case where HP
> doesn't recognise it at all.
>

kchuplis:
Maybe as an adult or if you were looking for some reason (and certainly 
Harry had no reason to connect The Prince, who he likes and admires, 
with Snape), but I know that at least for myself, at that age, that 
kind of thing wouldn't even hit my consciousness.  I don't really find 
that odd at all.