Kneasy / Snape & Lily

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> Dave Frankis wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3006 :
> 
> << What JKR seems to be conveying is that Harry's potions expertise
> reminds him of Lily, and that he is better than Snape. Given that he
> is actually using the Half-Blood Prince's recipes, this creates
> something of a puzzle. >>


Kneasy:
> Rather than your three suggestions, I like to think that Severus and
> Lily worked as partners in Advanced Potions in sixth year, and Severus
> wrote down their discoveries in his textbook (Lily may have written
> them down in her textbook or in a separate notebook). Some of the
> other spells that he wrote in the margins might have been invented by
> them together or by Lily separately and taught to him, but surely at
> least some (maybe all) of them were invented by him. The only argument
> people on the Main List have against this is that Lily couldn't
> possibly be friends with Sevvy in sixth year after he called her that
> nasty name at the end of fifth year. I don't think it impossible that
> they made up.

I have to agree with the idea that Severus and Lily worked as
partners. I've had a bit of trouble wondering why a young Severus
would have written all through his textbook, anyway, when I'm sure
there were loads of perfectly good parchment to be taking notes on
like everyone else.  But S & L working together may be a good reason
for this; it was probably a convenient source of shared communication
(note all of the "scribblings" throughout Fantastic Beasts between
Harry and Ron).  

I also got a bit of a thrill when I saw Sluggy mention the Draught to
Snape.  If we go all the way back (yes, kiddies, WAY back to PS/SS),
we find that the three items mentioned by Snape in his now-infamous
questioning of Harry during their very first class were thus: 
"asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known
as the Draught of Living Death. A bezoar is a stone taken from the
stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for
monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant..."

Of course, since then we have seen the practical use of both wolfsbane
and a bezoar. And, Dumbledore's last conversation ended with his offer
to Draco to make him *appear* to Voldemort to have died in his attempt
at murder. Both Snape's and DD's speeches were so important to the
story, I would love to see the Draught finally used, in order to round
out the trifecta.

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