Stupid question about Horscrux!Harry

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Charme" <dontask2much at y...> wrote:
> On an unrelated but Lily note, I have weird suspicion some of the potion 
> changes in the Snape's Potion Book came from either Lily, or in 
> collaboration with her. Note that Sluggy points out how he thought Lily was 
> pureblood, she was so good. He does not mention Snape, I don't think? Not 
> that that means anything, but there you are.
> 
> 
> Charme, hoping I haven't botched what I was trying to say

Lyn Now:
Yes, there is something very interesting going on here, yet as usual, JKR has left us with 
the essential pieces to know what it is. 

It is very interesting that Snape was the same age as Lilly, likely was in the same Potions 
classes, and surely was taught by the same teacher (Slughorn) yet Lilly is discussed in 
isolation as the outstanding Potions student, even though we know the Snape is a potions 
master in far more than title. We almost surely know that Snape's potions abilities exist 
independent of the book. What we don't know is from whence Lilly's abilites derived.  It 
seems as canonically possible that Snape was Lilly's tutor as vice versa. What I'm not sure 
about is for how long Slughorn was their professor. If he entered or left part way through 
their time at Hogworts, he would have developed a view of their abilities for only one 
moment in time, much like he has of Harry's. 

The whole issue of the handwriting is obviously significant. It otherwise seems unncessary 
for Rowling to have Hermione comment on the possible female authorship of the 
annotations. However, I don't recall there being any comment of any inconsistency in the 
handwriting. It seems that the assumption was that it was always written by the same 
person (now I have finished me re-reading, so I may have missed this). If so, and Snape 
has clearly associated himself with the signature, then I would think it is most likely to be 
his. That of course wouldn't preclude that Lilly was the source and Snape was the scribe. It 
is even possible that they collaborated on many of the "recipes" but Snape was the one 
who documented them (of course, wouldn't it be interesting to find Lilly's old Potion's 
book). Which makes me wonder as we write this, if Harry will come to find any of his 
parent's old books.

Ah, so much to consider, so little to know, even now.