Snape should have kicked James/Sirius' behinds!!.

[Joe Goodwin]

No: HPFGUIDX 156210


eggplant107 <eggplant107 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Yes, I'd be a fool to deny that. Snape is a formidable wizard! 

>As you pointed out James helped invent the Marauder's Map, and even
>very powerful adult wizards like Mad Eye thought that was a >remarkable
>object. And James managed to keep the Marauder's activities secret
>from Dumbledore, something that great wizard thought was even more
>extraordinary than making the map. 
>But not as quick as James apparently.
<SNIP>
>All in all that may not be too far off the mark; the annotations >Snape
>made in that potions book were impressive, very impressive indeed!
>I don't think there is any doubt about that, but forget defense he's
even better AT the dark arts.


Joe: 
Didn't McGonagall say that James and Sirius were the two "cleverest wizards" of their year/time in POA? That would include Snape right? Now even assuming McGonagall has a good case of Gryffindor bias she's still pretty straightforward.
   
  I also wonder if everything in the HBP Potions book was invented by Snape. Because it was written in his hand is no guarantee that he invented all of it.
   
  No doubt Snape was pretty smart and inventive. I just think that sometimes people like to make more of it than there is to play up the whole Anti-Hero line some people think is going to be revealed in book 7.
   
  Joe