The Half Blood Prince (WAS Re: Unbreakable Vows)

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 165613

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ronin_47" <Ronin_47 at ...> wrote:

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> 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.

zanooda:

Harry is not very attentive to detail, is he? Besides, Snape never 
writes on the blackboard himself, he makes words appear by the flick 
of his wand. I'm not saying that the handwriting on the board is not 
Snape's, I just think that the "flick of the wand" can at least in 
part explain the difference. 

The words that appear  on the board by magic would be written in some 
kind of "ideal" handwriting. The words that someone writes by hand 
trying to fit them on the narrow margins of a book would look 
different, even if it's basically the same handwriting.

I never doubted that the notes were Snape's, and I'm sure he 
didn't "steal" Lily's ideas. There was a time when I thought it was 
the other way around, but then I abandoned this idea as invalid. I 
like to think that there is something in this Snape-Lily-HBP book 
triangle though...

In your other post you ask about Snape using the NEWT level book in 
his 5th year (sorry that I don't quote you properly). I think that, 
the book being his mother's, Snape had it at home all his life. When 
he became interested in potion-making, he read all potion books he 
could get his hands on. He started using this book and experiment 
with it much earlier than his 6th year, IMO. I used to do this 
myself, when the level of teaching was not high enough in a subject I 
was interested in (we didn't have any advanced classes, like here).

 
> Just as if he'd REALLY hated Harry, he could've just let him be 
> jinxed off his broom in the first year instead of working a counter-
> jinx. Or he could've been rid of the lot rather than throwing 
> himself between the kids and the werewolf/Lupin.

zanooda:

You watched HP movies too much again, Ronin :-)! Snape never did any 
such thing in the book, he was unconscious the entire time. I always 
wondered if JKR knew about this scene (Snape shielding the kids from 
the werewolf) before the movie came out. If she knew and didn't say 
anything, it could mean that we (DDM!Snapers) are right and Snape 
will turn out to be a good guy (never a nice guy, that's for sure).