HBP - spoilers - that textbook

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Vikings: snape snape snape snape... 
Waitress: ...snape snape snape egg and snape; snape snape snape 
snape baked beans ...snape snape snape 
Vikings: Snape! Lovely snape! Lovely snape! 
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce 
served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished 
with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and snape. 
Wife: Have you got anything without snape? 
Waitress: Well, there's snape egg sausage and snape, that's not got 
much snape in it. 
Wife: I don't want ANY snape! 
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon snape and sausage? 
Wife: THAT'S got snape in it! 
Man: Hasn't got as much snape in it as snape egg sausage and snape, 
has it? 
Vikings: Snape snape snape snape...  (Crescendo through next few 
lines...) 
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon snape and sausage without the snape 
then? 
Waitress: Urgghh! 


That should be enough snaper space...

Kneasy wrote:


> It's that Advanced Potion-Making thing:
> 
> "It was nearly fifty years old. Neither his father, nor his 
father's
> friends, had been at Hogwarts fifty years ago."
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> If it did belong to Tom and Sevvy 'inherited' or otherwise 
acquired it
> during his time at Hogwarts, what would be the significance?
> Oh, while I'm here, does anyone know of a description of Snape's
> handwriting that is his for sure?


Page 637, Chapter 30, Scholastic

  "Well, it's just that I was sort of right about the Half-Blood 
Prince business," she said tentatively.

<snip>

  "No - no- Harry, I didn't mean that!" she said hastily, looking 
around to check that they were not being overheard.  "It's just that 
I was right about Eileen Prince once owning the book.  You 
see ...she was Snape's mother!"

<snip>

   "I was going through the rest of the old Prophets and there was a 
tiny announcement about Eileen Prince marrying a man called Tobias 
Snape, and then later an announcement saying that she'd given birth 
to a --"

So, you see that while Sevy wasn't at school 50 years ago, his dear 
mummy was.  It seems to me that this talent for potion making was 
passed down to him from the lovely Eileen Prince, who may have been 
talented at more than Gobstones.  So, the handwriting was very 
likely hers and not her son's.  That would explain why neither 
Harry or anyone else recognized it.

Jo S., slightly misty at the thought of Snape's birth announcement