Handwriting (WAS:Re: CHAPDISC, HBP 10)

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 148754


> zeldaricdeau now:

> 
> However, I have often wondered why neither Ron nor Hermione 
> recognized the handwriting? 

I suppose Snape cleaned up his his handwriting at about the same time
he cleaned up his posture, his accent, his vocabulary, and his
clothes. The Snape we see now is someone who has gone to enormous
effort to create a smooth, educated, upper-class persona-- I mean,
most people seemed to think pre-OoP that Snape was from the same sort
of old wizarding money as Malfoy.  To me he's always seemed like
someone working very, very hard to create that impression, but his
spitting, his failure to hit details like teeth and fingernails, and
most of all his chip-on-shoulder touchiness about not getting proper
respect, screamed just the opposite.  Of course I predicted
Knockturn-Alley urchin, not crappy mill-town urchin, but you can't
have everything...

Anyways, he seems like the sort of person who spent hours and hours
practicing his signature--  I think he's trained himself in a fancy
copperplate, so his notes on kid's papers can have an intimidating
finality.

-- Sydney, still hoping for a Knockturn Alley connection for Snape--
through the Princes, maybe?