Re: How can Sneip be the Half-blood prince?



soup wrote:
> harelen@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I mean, when Harry looked at the date of the book it showed that it
> > was published 50 years ago, so that means that neither his father, nor
> > Sirius were at Hoguarts at that time. If that's true then Sneip
> > couldn't be there either!!! Remember that they were all schoolmates!
> > So???? What's the deal? Am I missing sth?
>
>
> It apparently was his mothers book before him, think about it though it
> means Harry and co are using a book published 70 years (?) ago, i.e.

50 years ago it was. and only ron and harry are only using this old
edition of the potions book. And only because they didn't get new ones
because they thought they wouldn't be allowed to do the NEWTS.

> publication date has nothing to do with user date (especially in a
> British "public school") if the potions worked 50-70 or 100 years ago,

yeah exactly, it could have been a second or third hand copy from a
2nd-hand bookshop.

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Jane Grey

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