HBP - spoilers - that textbook

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
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> > > But Tom was there in the mid-40's, and Tom was a brilliant 
> student.  I haven't heard anyone say the same of Sevvy, have you?
> 
> Dungrollin:
> HBP, Chapter 15 The Unbreakable Vow, pp 298-9 (UK ed) 
> "But I don't think I've ever known such a natural at Potions!" said 
> Slughorn, regarding Harry with a fond, if blood-shot, 
> eye. "Instinctive, you know - like his mother! I've only ever taught 
> a few with this kind of ability, I can tell you that, Sybill - why, 
> even Severus -" 
> 
> And then a few paragraphs later:
> 
> "Well, then it's natural ability!" shouted Slughorn. "You should 
> have seeen what he [Harry] gave me, fist lesson, the Draught of 
> Living Death - never had a student produce finer on a first attempt, 
> I don't think even you, Severus -"
> 
> No, not even Severus, not on a first attempt. But the notes in that 
> book were notes he presumably made over the course of his sixth and 
> seventh years for his NEWTs. Even Hermione has never made up her own 
> spell before, while Snape had done at least two before his OWLs, 
> *and* one of them was non-verbal.  
> 
> Kneasy:
> > > We've been told that Voldy isn't the HBP. Has is actually been 
> > spelled out that Tom isn't either? 'Cos unless it has Jo might be 
> doing a Dobby.
> 
> Dungrollin:
> 'Fraid she did, it's somewhere on the website in the FAQs.
> Ah. Here:
> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq_view.cfm?id=57
> 

Ah well, back to the drawing board.
Mind you, I'm convinced that the textbook has more to offer than
has been revealed already.

Maybe, as Eloise posits, there's an as yet unknown connection to Lily.

Or maybe, scribbled in some cramped margin is information on that
very individual hair lotion that makes bouncy  tresses hang like damp 
curtains. With mold.
Worth a fortune, that is.
Weasley Enterprises would pay a packet for it, call it 'Trichoslump' or
something.

Kneasy