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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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When I attended a fancy UK international high school, some of my 'textbooks' were paperback Penguin Classics of literature, and I made copious notes in those. While I was less likely to do so with hardbacks, if I bought it (and had no intention of selling it back) I certainly could do so.

I think I assumed Snape did intend to keep it, but forgot about it when he switched classrooms. It's possible he would have lent it to a favored Slytherin student, too.

None of this explains why things like 'Sectusempra' were scribbled in a POtions book - surely Snape's preferred subject was Dark Arts? Now there's a book I'd like to see - his old DADA book, if he bothered with it.

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The other theory I have kicking around is maybe he had some little narrative in his head about the book, that he filled it full of notes and did leave it behind as a student hoping it would fall into the hands of some other deserving (by which I mean Slytherin, or half-blood or tormented by his/her peers or some such) student who, if nothing else, would at least manage to put a teacher (and Slughorn was clearly his, and clearly didn't show much favouritism towards him) in his place. It makes sense of Snape's character -- he's after power more than glory, he seems perfectly happy getting his jabs in at people in private or in a way unknown to those except those immediately involved.

And I don't know -- what is Snape's best subject... I mean, that's never managed to become clear, since there are all these reasons outside of person interest for him to want the DaDA job. Certainly the dude's too smart for his own good though.