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   Message 130,558 of 130,933   
   Timothy Bruening to Louis Epstein   
   Re: Snape's handwriting   
   09 Jul 16 10:06:13   
   
   From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 6:24:54 AM UTC-7, Louis Epstein wrote:   
   > RC  wrote:   
   > > Wow, after all this time, another interesting discussion.  Somehow,   
   > > Snape lost the book.  That's not unbelievable when you think about a   
   > > student packing up and leaving the school he attended for 6 years,and   
   > > his handwriting may have changed through the years.  Mine did.  But   
   > > what I don't understand is why Snape didn't publish a new Advanced   
   > > Potions book.  He would have made a fortune!   
   > > But, as Hermonie said, Wizards are not logical.   
   >   
   > I see Hermione as editing a new edition of the book (bylined Borage and   
   > Snape) that incorporates Snape's improvements on Borage's text.   
   > There might have been a bureaucracy to get through to get a new text   
   > approved that Snape had no time for.   
      
   However, the Half-Blood Prince's book got incinerated in a fire before Harry   
   could recover it.   
      
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