The Half Blood Prince (WAS Re: Unbreakable Vows)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 165609

 
>
> 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!).
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Harry is sometimes a little slow on the uptake, as 
> when it took him a year to figure out it Dumbledore's 
> voice he heard in Petunia's howler.
> 
> On the other hand, I still suspect that Snape may *not* 
> be the HBP.  I don't think it's Lily, though, because she's dead.
 

colebiancardi:

true about the uptake - but also, Harry has a major mental block when
it comes to Snape.  So, even though it is pointed out that the
handwriting is small & cramped - shades of teen!Snape's handwriting in
OotP - minuscule & cramped - and also Adult!Snape's handwriting -
spikey handwriting - it seems to have passed by Harry.   I don't think
that Harry would even consider that the HBP could be Snape - the shock
& horror of it all - the book that has been giving him such helpful
advice all year-long turns out to be his bete noir.

I do believe the HBP is Snape & the writing in the book is all his
own.  I have no reason to doubt it, based on Snape's mastery of Potions.

But, as an aside, my handwriting as a young adult, even in my 20's,
doesn't look at thing my handwriting now.  I had much neater
handwriting then.  No one can read my writing now - sometimes even me!!

colebiancardi
(who was probably a doctor in a previous life, if her handwriting is
any indication!)