handwriting (was Re: too many topics to fit in this subject line, sorry

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 148872

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
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> Potioncat:
> Oh, I really like this idea. I'm not sure if canon gives any hints 
for 
> it, but I'll be looking for them now. I never gave it a second 
thought 
> when I first read it, that one person could read the writing and 
the 
> other two couldn't. I assumed Ron was too impatient to bother and 
> Hermione was determined not to. 
> 
> But an enchantment, possible done by Snape himself, makes a great 
deal 
> of sense. He would have wanted his spells protected from 
maraudering 
> eyes. It explains why he wouldn't have looked for it when it first 
went 
> missing. (this year or when he was a teen?) It sort of explains 
Snape's 
> reaction in the bathroom...of course he wasn't ready to admit 
knowing 
> about the book.
> 
> Yep, I like this.
> 
> Someone else had suggestd that Harry subconsciously recognised the 
> writing and on that level already had something of an 
understanding of 
> the teenager who wrote the notes,  having experienced bullying 
himself. 
> Whether or not he did, he and Snape do have a lot in common. Teen 
Snape 
> had more anger it seems and less compunction about revenge. But 
we've 
> seen Harry come very close. Might it then fit that somehow the 
> enchantment's wording recognised Harry as a kindred soul? Didn't 
the 
> signature read something like, "property of the half-blood 
prince"? 
> Isn't Harry a sort of half-blood prince himself?
> 
> Potioncat
>
P-cat:
I was so struck by the idea that Harry and young Snape have so much 
in common, that they could have related to each other in some other 
life! Yes, both were half-bloods and did feel, obviously, left out 
somehow. Snape chose the Dark Arts to find his place and Harry chose 
the other way but still, they both shared common experiences. I felt 
the same way, much more uncomfortably about Harry and LV. How much 
they shared in common, the love of Hogwarts, trying to find out 
about their families and not having so much luck with it. Struggling 
to find a place in this world neither knew existed until their 11th  
years. Orphans, at least on the face of it, for LV. It's got to be 
key to LV, the things that he and Harry share, and to Snape. The 
dramatic action may seem like it will be finding the Horcruxes, but 
a huge chunk of the action will be in how Harry deals with, accepts, 
works into his own consciousness the similartities he shares with 
the two wizards he hates the most in the whole world. 
Jen D.