Handwriting (WAS:Re: CHAPDISC, HBP 10)

[carodave92]

No: HPFGUIDX 148782

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "latha279" <brahadambal@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Krista:
> > > <snip> 
> > > I also think the whole idea of Snape's teenage writing being 
> > > mistaken for a girl's is very odd, I have to say. <snip>
> > > As a guy with esteem issues, he'd probably write small; as a 
> > > wordy student, he'd have cramped handwriting on tests, to 
squeeze 
> > > everything in; as a guy whose mind is inclined to logic/math, 
> > > he'd have more linear, precise handwriting, closer to print 
than 
> > > cursive; and because he's trying to write quickly, no effort 
at 
> > > being "pretty." <snip>
> > 
> > 
> > brady:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Geoff:
> Just to add a couple of thoughts to the mix: if I look at my own 
> handwriting, I have a lot of examples from my late teens at the 
end 
> of the 1950s when it was rather untidy and scrawly. When I first 
> worked in an office, I tidied it up because I was involved in 
> designing data capture forms and others had to be able to 
interpret 
> my heiroglyphics :-). Then, in teaching, I had to have readable 
> blackboard work and was also involved in producing material for 
staff 
> noticeboards - this when the school didn't have a photocopier. 
> Nowadays, because I have a little bit of hand trouble,I'm back to 
> scruffy handwriting. quite different from, say, 15 years ago.
> snip

Carodave:
Wouldn't Harry have seen Snape's handwriting for years on the 
blackboard, on returned  homework and on exams?  I don't think his 
handwriting could have changed that much in 20 years as to be 
completely unrecognizable.