SPOILERS: First Read Rant

[pippin_999]

Somehow
I didn't
Think
Penny
Would
Be
Happy
With
This
Book
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> 
Penny:
> No, but *Hermione* should have recognized it!

Pippin:
Snape's handwriting could change enough in twenty years 
that she wouldn't. *She* never saw Snape's juvenile
hand in the pensieve, and Harry never talked about it.

No one's ever said Snape's  chalkboard writing is too small 
and cramped to read. An expert might realize a similarity, 
I suppose, but Hermione isn't one.

Penny:
 And why, if nothing else, was she not demanding regularly 
that Harry show the book to Dumbledore?  

Pippin:
Because she knew it wouldn't do any good. He wasn't
about to give it up, no matter what she said, and if
she squealed on him it would be the Firebolt all
over again. Besides, she got hung up on the idea
that the Prince was a girl. Once Hermione latches
onto an idea, it takes her a long time to let go of it.

Pippin