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Lily, Snape and Potions: Who was the real potions master?
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post Feb 1 2008, 07:13 PM
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Upon reading HBP again, something struck me. If it's already been discussed forgive me. Slughorn says Lily was really good at potions and we know that Snape was really good too. In the HP series we see that Gryffindor and Slytherin have potions classes together. I was wondering if maybe Harry wasn't the only Potter to benefit form the HBP's potions notes and maybe that's how Lily got so good, or was it the other way around? Were those notes made in Snapes old potions book his ideas, or were those Lily's and he wrote the notes in the margins? I myself wonder who really taught who or if they were both just good at potions. Any ideas anyone?


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I don't think there's any doubt that the handwriting in the Advanced Potions book is strictly Snape's, but I do think there's a possibilty that Lily and Snape helped each other out a bit in potions. However, I do not think that Lily had anything to do with the invented spells in that book. Those were purely Snape's work, especially ones like Sectumsempra; he takes full credit for inventing them at the end of HBP. Lily might have had an influence on the revisions to the potion instructions, but I think those were mostly Snape's work.


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- George Weasley's Girlfriend   Lily, Snape and Potions: Who was the real potions master?   Feb 1 2008, 07:13 PM
- - death_eater   I'd say they were both good at it....becuase S...   Feb 1 2008, 07:16 PM
- - roonwit   QUOTE(George Weasley's Girlfriend @ Feb 2...   Feb 1 2008, 07:21 PM
- - Laura W   "I was wondering if maybe Harry wasn't th...   Feb 1 2008, 07:33 PM
- - George Weasley's Girlfriend   But I just find it interesting that we have a Mugg...   Feb 1 2008, 09:15 PM
|- - harrydavid   QUOTE(George Weasley's Girlfriend @ Feb 1...   Feb 2 2008, 12:13 AM
- - rowena r   Both, Lily and Snape could have had an aptitude fo...   Feb 2 2008, 08:38 AM
- - Snapehalfbloodprince   I say that Snape wrote the notes and put some of L...   Feb 2 2008, 03:23 PM
- - lady_fibsworth   That's an interesting idea. However, it does n...   Feb 2 2008, 04:49 PM
- - Hatun punchaw   Gellert went to Dürmstrang, he was no partner with...   Feb 2 2008, 08:56 PM
- - voldemort07   Although I think Lily was probably a gifted witch ...   Feb 4 2008, 07:06 PM
- - DigificWriter   Even though we do not know for sure that the Slyth...   Feb 4 2008, 07:52 PM
- - Laura W   I don't think Lily would have had anything to ...   Feb 4 2008, 09:19 PM
- - Oryx   QUOTEThere's another point. Even if Gryffindor...   Feb 4 2008, 09:58 PM
- - Ela   I am pretty sure that Lily was not that gifted in ...   Feb 4 2008, 10:26 PM
- - Laura W   QUOTE From Laura W -"There's another poin...   Feb 4 2008, 11:36 PM
|- - roonwit   QUOTE(Laura W @ Feb 5 2008, 04:36 AM) As ...   Feb 5 2008, 04:58 AM
- - Oryx   I agree Lily had talent for Potions that did not d...   Feb 5 2008, 12:10 PM
- - DigificWriter   Given the depth of Lily and Snape's friendship...   Feb 5 2008, 02:08 PM
- - Laura W   QUOTE(Laura W @ Feb 5 2008, 04:36 AM) As he had i...   Feb 5 2008, 03:45 PM
|- - DigificWriter   QUOTE(Laura W @ Feb 5 2008, 01:45 PM) Bla...   Feb 5 2008, 04:30 PM
|- - roonwit   QUOTE(Laura W @ Feb 5 2008, 08:45 PM) ...   Feb 5 2008, 04:32 PM
- - sver/nor   Whose to say that the handwriting in Snape's p...   Feb 5 2008, 04:21 PM
- - DigificWriter   roonwit's position has some merit, and here...   Feb 5 2008, 04:50 PM
- - Oryx   QUOTEAnd, when Severus went off to school for his ...   Feb 5 2008, 06:19 PM
- - Laura W   1. " and they might still have worked togeth...   Feb 6 2008, 02:07 AM
- - Anniemaji   I too believed that JKR had Hermione note the femi...   Feb 10 2008, 08:35 PM
- - harrydavid   As for the feminine handwriting, I believe that it...   Feb 10 2008, 09:33 PM
- - sTiTcH   i think the comment about the handwriting being fe...   Feb 11 2008, 01:56 AM
- - Shampoo4Snape   I always pictured Lily somewhat Hermione-ish, exce...   Feb 13 2008, 04:30 PM
- - patricia.potter19   No way Lily could have benefited that book, becaus...   Feb 13 2008, 05:02 PM
- - dominanttuba   I feel like both Lily and Snape would have been ve...   Jun 24 2008, 07:31 PM
- - wickedboy   I don't think that it is possible that Lily di...   Jun 26 2008, 08:38 AM
- - ladymerlin   this always intrigued me. when Harry kept using th...   Sep 9 2008, 03:05 AM
- - xhandler   Easily Snape... In every lesson Harry or Neville m...   Sep 9 2008, 03:37 AM
- - Lost Centaur   The potions book was old and most likely belonged ...   Sep 9 2008, 10:06 AM
- - Pleione   *Squishity squish* I've just merged two thre...   Sep 9 2008, 11:13 AM

 

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