Handwriting

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 148896

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>SNIPPED--Slughorn is too lazy to change to a
> more modern textbook even now), prevents Harry from figuring out 
what
> an observant reader suspects from the first description of the 
writing
> at the end of the "Half-Blood Prince" chapter. 

Jen D here,
After reading a very convincing discussion elsewhere on Slughorn, I 
can't help but believe he knew what he was doing by giving Harry 
that "old textbook." And, a complete and total non-sequitor but,who 
was it that said Snape knew more hexes and curses on arrival to 
Hogwarts than kids in their last year? Snape came equipped somehow 
to immerse himself into the dark arts! Appropo of your next bit 
here, thank goodness! 
Jen D.
> 
> The similarity of the descriptions in HBP and OoP and the hint 
we've
> already received in OoP that teen!Snape was obsessed with DADA, 
along
> with what we already know of the adult Snape's skill at Potions and
> his recognition of the book as his, makes the identification of the
> Half-Blood Prince, the writer of both the spells and the potions
> hints, as certain as anything we know to be true in the HBP books. 
We
> may be in doubt regarding Snape's motives and his loyalties, but 
the
> title mystery has been solved just as surely as the identity of the
> person who put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire.
> 
> So unless Eileen used the same nickname as her son and called 
herself
> "the Half-Blood Prince," which I rather doubt, the writing 
throughout
> the book is that of the teenage Potions and DADA genius, Severus
> Snape--a sublime irony given the empathy and admiration Harry feels
> for the unknown boy in contrast to the determined hatred he now 
feels
> for the man that boy became.
> 
> Carol, who *does* pay attention to details and hopes she has not
> obscured her argument by including too many in this post

Jen here again! Thank goodness Carol I play well off of your side 
thoughts!
Jen D.
>