Harry the author

[zeldaricdeau]

No: HPFGUIDX 175434

> > 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.

zeldaricdeau:

But if the Half-Blood Prince's Advanced Potion Making book was a 6th 
year text, it's possible that the information in it wouldn't have been 
presented by Snape in class until a student's 6th year, meaning Harry 
and company would not have been exposed to those particular innovations 
and, therefore, would not have recognized them. I suppose one could 
argue that they might have recognized a similarity in technique but 
that seems too far above Harry or Ron's heads. While Hermione might 
have caught on to such a similarity, she was terribly preoccupied with 
getting Harry to stop using the book.

As to the topic that started this thread--Harry possibly publishing a 
collection of Snape's potions innovations--that made my day :).

-ZR