Harry the author

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 175453

> Ken says:
> 
> My apologies but I haven't really been following this thread 
> but . . . are we sure it is Snape who wrote the additions?  At one 
> point we are told that the book is 50 years old, well before Harry's 
> father and thus Snape's time.  The book must have been Snape's 
> mother's book before it became his and thus it is likely that it was 
> she who made the changes - hence the hidden humour in Hermione's 
> suggestions that this "prince" is a girl and in Harry's wrong 
> assumption that it 'just has to be a guy'.  If the new spells are in 
> the same handwriting then it must have been she, not her son, who 
> created the new spells as well, though he may have been the first to 
> use them at Hogwarts and taken credit for them.

colebiancardi:

hmmmm, knowing who Snape is now, does one really think he would take
credit for someone else's work?  He tells Harry that *he* is the
Half-Blood Prince and that his filthy father(James) was just like
Harry, trying to steal what wasn't his.  Snape shows way to much anger
after Harry tries to use one of the Half-Blood Prince's own inventions
on him to be lying about this, imho.  If the additions were his mum's
and not Snape's, I don't think he would get so pissed at Harry when
Harry is using them - I mean, he doesn't really have the moral high
ground here if that is the case.

Also, the notations like "Just shove a Bezor down their throats" is
just so Snape-like, that I cannot imagine anyone else but Snape
writing it.  

Snape's handwriting in OotP is called crampted and small and when
Harry gets a paper back from Snape, it is described as spikey.  Not
mention that Eileen was a potions genuis;  however, Snape is one and
has been called this several times through-out the series.

As far as we know, Eileen is not a half-blood.  Hermione found the
article that stated that Eileen Prince married a Muggle, hence Snape's
Half Blood Prince nic.

colebiancardi