Potions!Genius.... Was Lying vs Murder

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 165506

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:
>
> (surely you 
> concede, Mike, that the Potions genius is Teen!Snape) 

Valky interjects:
Although this question wasn't directed to me I'd just like to note
that I actually don't concede this particular point at all. I totally
concede spellwriter!Snape (that much is irrefutable canon and besides
it's logical considering the implied by Sirius keen interest of Snape
in Dark Arts), but I continue to think that there are just that one
too many reminders of Lily in the HBP potions results to be completely
sure that the original genius behind that was Snape, Severus and
nothing but Snape. The fact that Snape and Lily shared a James-less
environment in NEWT potions and Slug Club for a year; and the
connection between that year and the Pensieve scene which I suppose is
a catalytic moment in the dynamic of these 70's Generation classmates,
only serves to reinforce the idea and increase the probability that
the HBP text was the product of more than one thinker, one of those
Lily Potter.

For the moment I am happy to allow the assumption that Snape's
handwriting = Snape's work fall by the by and have appearances, but I
don't make the same assumption at all, personally. FWIW.

Valky