Lily Evans and the Half Blood Prince - what a team

[claire_elise2003]

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Just had a thought.  Hogwarts is a school steeped in tradition.  If Harry's class had potions 
with Slytherin, I wonder if they had Gryffindor-Slytherin Potions classes when Lily and 
Snape were at school?  What a formidable team those two would have been in class.  If 
they started from first year in a combined class, I assume that they would have sat 
together.  With Lily's natural talent and Sev's prodigious skill in lateral potions-thinking, 
they would have been quite intimidating.  I feel sorry for all other Gryffindor or Slytherin 
students in their year.  

I would like to think that Snape is particularly hard on Harry in Potions as he knows what 
Harry's mum was capable of and is disappointed not to find her son as capable at brewing 
potions; but I am forced to accept the sad fact that Snape picked on Harry in class because 
Harry was the living reminder that Lily loved James, the arrogant berk who bullied him at 
school, and not Severus Snape.  He may have been an incredibly brave man who truly 
loved Lily, but he was still a nasty, jealous man who held a long grudge.

Claire