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

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 148784

 
In a message dated 2/25/2006 2:58:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
carodave92 at yahoo.com writes:

I don't  think his 
handwriting could have changed that much in 20 years as to be  
completely unrecognizable.


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Sherrie here:
 
I know mine has - in some cases completely.  (For one thing, my  handwriting 
is far more legible now than when I was a teenager!)  I  recently found a 
folder of old essays from my high school days, sometime back  before Nixon was a 
crook - anyone who knew me then would never recognize my  current handwriting.  
(The signature on my Social Security card, which  I signed when I was 16, 
looks NOTHING like my signature today.)  I've  changed the forms of some of my 
letters (particularly my capital S and H, which  happen to be my initials) 
totally; I spent some time during the intervening  years practicing Celtic 
Commoncase and Blackletter Gothic calligraphy, so  there's that influence; I've 
recently been working with  Spencerian penmanship (ca. 1840s), so THAT has started 
creeping into my  handwriting.  Most importantly, wrist surgery a few years 
back has forced  me to slow my writing down (which I'm sure contributes to its 
legibility!)
 
I find it quite believable that Harry - who, IMHO, doesn't really pay that  
much attention to Snape's handwriting in the first place - wouldn't  
necessarily recognize Snape's teenaged writing in the Prince's potions  book.  Even in 
the one instance when he SAW the teen version of Snape's  quillmanship, the 
only thing he noticed about it was that it was cramped - he  didn't look closely 
enough to be able to say, e.g., "Oh, gee, he uses a Greek E  in the lower 
case!"  
 
Just my 2 Knuts - as ever, YMMV.
 
Sherrie


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