The Half Blood Prince (WAS Re: Unbreakable Vows)

[Elizabeth Snape]

No: HPFGUIDX 165621


>
> > --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!).
> 

Snape's Witch replies:

Since JKR used similiar adjectives for Snape's handwriting in SWM and 
the handwriting in the HBP book, it seems to me she intended us to 
believe that Severus Snape did indeed make the notations in the book. 
Nor do I believe that Lily Evans was the potions genius behind the 
HBP book.

As to why Harry didn't recognize Snape's handwriting as the HBP's, 
handwriting does change.  My handwriting at 38 was totally different 
from mine at 16 and I see no reason why Snape's wouldn't have changed 
too!