[HPforGrownups] The book that belongs to the HBP

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 168493

On 10 May 2007 at 3:08, Tandra wrote:

> Ok so I'm reading HBP for the 3rd or 4th time and why this just hit
> me
> I have no clue....but seriously how much older than Harry is
> Snape?
> Why is it the school is still using the same textbook one of the
> professors would of had in their day? LOL It can't be that much
> different in the Wizard world than the real world. A book that is
> what
> maybe at least 30 years old, still being used?! I just find that
> odd...no one else on this? :-)

Maybe it's just a really good book.

Seriously - real world examples, again. When I was at school, our Latin textbook (and I 
started studying Latin in 1988) dated from the 1930s. It had been reprinted but when I lost a 
copy, my teacher gave me a much older one that was the same inside. In some senior 
mathematics classes we used a book published in 1878. Sometimes an old text book can be 
a very good book and it remains in use because it's a very good book.

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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