Right. Half-Bloody Prince.
Why, if Snape discovered thirty or so years ago, that there were better ways of doing most of the potions than the ways suggested by the most used Hogwarts textbook, did he not rewrite the textbook?
This is daft for two reasons:
- He has been using substandard textbooks to teach his students for all that time - which would drive him round the twist, surely, and also train all the wizards wrong (which, before someone points out that he is teh evil, also counts for the Death Eaters in Waiting, Slytherin).
- He could use his publication record to get promotion to the Defence Against the Dark Arts post.
(I know, this point is weaker, because I'm thinking of the British University system, where having authored an authoritative textbook would count for something - the DADA is in the gift of Dumbledore, who is for obscure reasons never going to shell it out, even if Snape kills Voldemort, raises Dumbledore and banishes evil from the world replacing it with altruism and kittens).
Maybe he wants to keep it all to himself. But this is his school-room musings - surely he'll keep improving, so he'll still be ahead of the game, even if he publicises a few of his older experiments. |
