Snape, Lily & the Potions textbook

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 164883


> Alla:
<snip> I still 
> maintain that whether you ( hypothetical you) consider the 
possibility of notes being Lily depends on whom you think would 
matter more in relation to book 7.
<snip>

Carol responds:
The notes are all in the same tiny cramped handwriting, the writing in
which the HBP (whom we know to be Snape) writes "This book is the
property of the Half-Blood Prince. There's not one handwriting for the
Potions hints and another for the spells, including Sectumsempra.
Also, the handwriting exactly matches the tiny cramped handwriting
Teen!Snape uses in his DADA OWL in "Snape's worst Memory." Surely, the
whole point of describing his handwriting in that scene (which
otherwise merely shows us how dedicated he was to getting every single
detail he could remember into his exam answers) was to set us up for
the HBP's very similar handwriting and provide a clue to his identity.

Surely, Teen!Severus would not have copied "Just shove a Bezoar down
their throat" from Lily. That sounds like Snape himself to me,
reinforced by the Bezoar lesson on Harry's very first day of Potions
class.

Why, when we know that Snape is a genius at Potions, should we think
for a moment that he copied Lily's notes? We seem the same
experimental tendency in the Potions improvements and the invented
spells. And Snape has said that he's the Half-Blood Prince. what more
do we need?

Carol, who will be glad to quote the descriptions of Teen!Snape's
handwriting yet again if necessary to show that the notes are not Lily's