The Half Blood Prince (WAS Re: Unbreakable Vows)

[bgrugin]

No: HPFGUIDX 165598

> --Ronin's Comments--
> It also strikes me as odd that Harry didn't recognize the
> handwriting in the book when he's spent the past 5 years, seeing
> Snape's handwriting on the board in each potions class.

MusicalBetsy here:
Finally, someone noticed the same thing that I did!  When you've had
a teacher for a long amount of time, you KNOW what their handwriting
looks like, and I don't think an older high school kid's handwriting
is going to look a lot different 20 years or so later.  So why
doesn't Harry recognize it?  Is it to just to make the plot move
along, or is it something more significant, like it was someone
else's, Snape's collaborator possibly (Lily? - although I can't see
her doing a spell for her enemies!).

Ronin:
> Dumbledore trusted Snape without a doubt. He knew something that
> nobody else was aware of. Harry thinks he knows that it was because
> of the regret Snape felt when Voldemort used his information to go
> and kill James and Lily. But, I doubt Dumbledore would've trusted
> Snape based on that, without something MAJOR to back it up. It's my
> belief that we will find this out somehow in book 7, as this is a
> carrot that has been dangled in front of us for too long now for it
> not to be significant. (I also think that Lupin knows something
> he's not sharing. He acted very peculiar when Harry was going over
> the details of Dumbledore's murder, IMO.)

MusicalBetsy again:
I've also always felt that way about why Dumbledore trusts Snape -
when Harry tells everyone Dumbledore's reason for trusting Snape, it
seemed so...stupid.  Like it just wasn't enough...and I don't think
it is; in fact, I'm SURE there's got to be more to it that we don't
know yet.  As for the Lupin connection, I'll have to reread that - I
didn't notice that at all.

Thanks for the good comments, Ronin!

MusicalBetsy, who is beginning to get very anxious for July to come
around.