HBP's Potion book

[carodave92]

No: HPFGUIDX 155539

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cass_da_sweet"
> <cass_da_sweet@> wrote:
> >
> > I have yet to see this posted and it's been bugging me for a 
while. In
> > HBP Hermione continues to insist that the HBP's Potions book was
> > written by a girl. I know that it was Snape's mother's book but 
we are
> > giving Snape all the credit for the spells and such written in 
it when
> > it might not have been he who wrote it. Maybe it matters and 
maybe it
> > doesn't but 
 well it's bugging me.
> > 
> > Cass_da_sweet
> >
> Carol responds:
> Since we know that he's a Potions genius and that he came to 
Hogwarts
> knowing more hexes than most sixth-years, and since we learn in HBP
> that he's also a Healer and he refers to himself as the Half-Blood
> Prince, I really don't think there's much doubt. I think Hermione's
> insistence that the author of the spells might be a girl and her
> discovery o Eileen Prince's existence is chiefly a red herring, but
> also foreshadowing of Snape's Half-blood parentage. 
<snip> 
 
> Carol, noting that Slughorn's use of the same Potions text for 
fifty
> years doesn't say much for his own inventiveness or incentive, in
> marked contrast to Snape's
>
Now Carodave:

The Snape family must have been poor - Severus comes to school with 
his mother's textbook.  Even Ron Weasley buys a new textbook for the 
class, although in the past he has purchased used textbooks.  
(Arthur's promotion must mean more money - good for him!)  There was 
some discussion in another thread about how wealth or lack thereof 
may have affected Peter Pettigrew in life; maybe coming to Hogwarts 
as a poor student (and a half-blood one at that) primed Snape to 
look for acceptance where he could find it, ie, the Death Eaters.

Carodave