Harry the author

[rt11guru]

No: HPFGUIDX 175428

guru wrote:

I've been wondering why Severus hadn't already written that book or
its equivalent.  In PS/SS he introduces the class to the wonders of
potions, and you can tell he is passionate about the subject. One
would think that having figured out how to improve the art, he would
have, at least, been teaching the class out of his annotated version
of the text, if not having written his own. 
 
Of course, that would have left little mystery in who the HBP really
was, and leaves a lot of blank pages in the 5th book.

 
Snape's Witch:

If he hadn't actually published a potion text, he *was* teaching his 
innovations, writing the recipes on the blackboard . . . rarely, if 
ever, referring to a textbook.  That's the reason Hermione's class 
work in N.E.W.Ts potions was suddenly so much worse than Harry's 
because she was following Borage's text and Harry was using the HBP's 
improvements. In all her previous potions classes she *had* been 
taught the HBP's version and getting superior results.

guru:

I would think that if Snape had been teaching his versions of the
recipes, that Harry would have recognized them when he saw the 
notations in the book.