HBP's Potion book

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 155609

AmanitaMuscaria now wrote:

- As Ceridwen puts it so well, I was not saying 
> Eileen was 'the Half-Blood Prince', merely that it was her book 
> originally, and there may be two persons' work in it. I was answering 
> cass_da_sweet's note, and going off on a tangent. Ron can't read the 
> handwriting at all, so takes the unwritten-in book. Hermione thinks 
> the handwriting is a girl's - presumably, then, she can read it, or 
> some of it? It may not be important, just that some time ago there 
> was a discussion that Harry may have been the only one (apart from 
> Snape, of course) who could read it, and that the book had been 
> bewitched (bewizarded, surely?) so this would happen.
> Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria
>
Carol responds:
But surely the whole point of having Teen!Severus as the inventor of
both the hexes and potion hints is the irony of having Harry learning
from him and liking and admiring him, not to mention getting credit
for Teen!Severus's ideas in Potions when he thinks he hasn't learned
anything from the adult Snape and having both Potions Master Snape and
his alter ego the Half-Blood Prince indirectly responsible for saving
Ron through their comments on bezoars. The whole delicious irony of
having Slughorn think that Harry is even better at Potions than
Teen!Snape is lost if both the Potions hints and the spells (which
he'd be silly not to use just because he hates their inventor) aren't
the products of Teen!Snape's mind. IMO, HBP is really "Harry Potter
and Severus Snape," meaning both the HBP and the DADA teacher who, for
whatever reason, killed Albus Dumbledore.

There's no hint anywhere that more than one person wrote in the HBP's
Potions books. The spells and the potions hints are in the same
minuscule handwriting.

Carol, who would like to hear a good plot reason for having the
potions hints be the products of a very minor character's mind