The book that belongs to the HBP

[david_krasnansky]

No: HPFGUIDX 168510

> 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? :-)

David responds:

Perhaps all text books are bound magically to their master copy
and when that master book is updated all the other copies wherever
they are are also updated.