Igenlode Wordsmith  wrote:   
   > I've been re-reading "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", possibly   
   > for the first time since it came out (it wasn't one of my favourites)   
   Agreed.  I mostly ignore everything after book 5 and read fanfic instead.   
      
   > Why Snape's book with all its development notes, etc., got left in the   
   > Potions cupboard after he had finished his NEWTs in the first place   
   > (even if he already had the information securely memorised by that   
   > point, you wouldn't have thought he would have wanted anyone else   
   > cribbing from his work -- as indeed, at least one of the subsequent   
   > users of his book did!) is another question.   
   Another theory I've heard is that he placed the book in the cupboard for   
   Harry to find.  As a way of helping Harry out in secret, without even Harry   
   catching on.  I'm not sure I believe it.   
      
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   Samuel Proulx   
      
      
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