From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 12:48:23 AM UTC-7, 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)   
   > but certainly for the first time in years, and was wondering with   
   > hindsight why Harry doesn't recognise the handwriting all over the   
   > "Half-Blood Prince"'s textbook.  One would have thought that this small,   
   > cramped hand (sufficiently predictable from Snape's personality that I   
   > had already guessed his writing as 'cramped' when composing my own story   
   > "Water-horse", which came out back before Book 5!) would have been   
   > familiar from lessons and comments on homework etc; presumably his   
   > handwriting must have become even worse as an adult -- since I have yet   
   > to encounter anyone whose handwriting becomes more legible with age...   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Yet another is why Snape didn't write a potions textbook containing his   
   improvements.   
      
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