Handwriting (WAS:Re: CHAPDISC, HBP 10)

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 148787

> 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.

> Pippin:
> Most likely Snape has more than one script at his disposal--
> a large, legible bookhand for communicating with students, and
> a cramped, hard to read but efficient script he used when the goal
> was to get as many words on the page as he could. An
> expert would be able to tell they were the same hand,
> but Harry is not an expert on handwriting.

Miles:
I'm really not sure that we - or HRH - ever saw Snape's adult hand. As far
as I remember, he only set a single letter as a mark onto students' essays,
nothing to recognise at all. What we "see" are instructions on the
blackboard - but did we see him WRITE them? He made them appear with a flick
of his wand - I would think it's possible that what appears is written in
Snape's hand, but it could as well be an entirely "magical" hand that
"writes" the instructions.
Does anyone have canon for Professor Snape actually WRITING anything?

Miles