HBP's Potion book

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 155584

AmanitaMuscaria:
<snip>
> > The other point is that there are familial resemblances in 
> handwriting. This may be even more emphasized if the student were 
> initially home-taught, as I assume most Hogwarts pupils from 
> wizarding families are. Snape _may_ have been, by his mother, and 
may
> further have modelled himself and his handwriting on the family 
> member he feels proud of, thus the Half-blood Prince
> > Just some thoughts. 

Carol:
> So you're saying that Eileen Prince may have written "This book
> belongs to the Half-Blood Prince" in the cramped, minuscule writing
> used throughout the book?
*(snip)*
> Or are you saying that the invented spells are Teen!Severus's, but 
the
> potion hints are his mother's, despite his known proficiency at
> potions and despite being in the same handwriting in the same book,
> apparently identical to the writing on his DADA exam, which JKR 
would
> have no reason to mention if it weren't a clue?
*(snip)*
> Carol, not understanding why anyone would want to make Eileen the 
HBP
> rather than a red herring or what purpose would be served by doing 
so

Ceridwen:
I thought that Amanita was saying that the writing in the book could 
possibly be by two people, one of whom was taught to write by the 
other and so both handwritings look alike to Harry, who is no expert 
on handwriting.  If this was Eileen's book, and she was good at 
Potions as Severus was in school, the hints could well be hers...

...except for what Slughorn says to Snape at the Christmas party, 
that Harry did better at the Draught of Living Death on his first try 
than even Snape had done, which means that the hints and corrections 
were not in the book when Snape entered sixth-year Potions, or at 
least that's how it seems to me.

Ceridwen.