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   On 4/2/2011 5:17 PM, SPT wrote:   
   > On Apr 2, 12:28 pm, Here in Minnesota   
   > wrote:   
   >> I'm re-reading the half blood prince.   
   >>   
   >> There's the old is Snape evil debate... bully to the kids, etc.   
   >>   
   >> I think his worst crime was in his teaching. I always thought he was a   
   >> poor teacher, but he wrote all the notes in Harry's copy of the textbook   
   >> and never bothered to share this knowledge with his students. And this   
   >> was stuff he learned when he was on a teenager; I assume he knew more later.   
   >   
   > The stuff he wrote in the margins of Advanced Potion Making was   
   > knowledge learned by both Snape and Lily. Teaching it might have been   
   > painful for him.   
   >   
   > And, of course, there was also the whole "evil" thing.   
      
      
   I have always been on the Snape is "good" camp... an ass, jerk, etc...   
   yes; but good. :)   
      
   Interesting point about Lily. I'm not sure how much she was involved in   
   the discoveries he wrote in his book; certainly not the spells parts.   
      
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