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Jury Duty is over.

I just turned down 3 days of non-union background work with no chance of an upgrade because I just wasn't in the mood. I feel guilty, but I know this is part of the new strategy.

Dear Pax Foods,
I am wearing a cute sexy blouse and pig tails. Do not call me sir. it makes you look stupid.

Dear 7-11,
Thank you for being in NYC and giving me a weird opportunity to be nostalgic about Australia of all things. But all your crappy American candy made me sad.



Why was Snape's old potions book floating around that classroom for Harry to wind up with? I certainly kept all my textbooks throughout my education (in fact, I hated my two years at public school because books had to be returned at the end of the course), only weeding them out recently, and I'm less of an intellectual freak than the dude -- and I didn't write copious notes on original work in my books either -- so what gives? Why just abandon it? Was it all in his head and he just wrote the shit down for Lily? We know the book was published 50 years before Harry gets his hands on it... was it an old onelying around the classroom when Snape was a student -- that is, was it a loaner given to him because of his meagre means?

I don't know why I care, but, help?

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[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

was it a loaner given to him because of his meagre means?

That's one idea . . . though I think another interesting idea is that Mr Walrus Teacher (I forget the name) planted it for Harry to find. I don't know that it's really plausible Snape would just return all of his notes at the end of the year, loaner book or not.

Though yes, in public school we always had to return books at the end of each term, and margin notes were always fun to find.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, so then the question becomes how did Walrus teacher get a hold of it?

And I agree, Snape wouldn't have given back a loaner book with that much info that could be used against him (or to compete with him) in it.

It makes _no_ sense.

[fleur.livejournal.com]

I would think that if the kids buy their own books now, they probably did back then, too, and as you say I cannot imagine Severus writing those things in a book he didn't *know* he was going to keep. He would have put his notes on a separate parchment if that were the case.

I like orien's theory.