Is it just luck that Harry got Snapes old book? Or did someone plan it that way? What do you think?








Lupinlover97

Just luck I think. When they enroll in the class they are told they can use some of the school books that are lying around in the classroom until they get their own. I think only Snape would have known his book was down there, and he certainly didn't make sure he got it.

"laugh" You are the only person who actually awnsers to me! Thanks! but you have to admit its kind of suspisus...

he gets the DADA job he wants
Slughorn gets the potins job

Do you see where im going?

Well mabye it wasn't Snape who planed it that way?! What if Slughorn did that on purpose?!

He is a Slytherin after all is said and done.

How would Slughorn have known it was Snape's book though? It wasn't labelled in anyway that he could possibly know.

I dont know but mabye snape knew that he was getting the DADA job and told slughorn ( but not harry ) to make sure he got that spicific book.. or maybe ( but very unlikely ) he was at school with him...
opps! i double posted!

Snape was very angry Harry had the book, so would not have made sure he got it. Also, Slughorn is much older than snape, they were not students at the same time, nor was it implied they were in any way friendly.

i think it was luck. but why would snape leave it there in the first place? maybe he wanted someone to get it, but maybe not harry???

Interesting question. I don't think Snape of Slughorn would've planned it that way. but it is interesing that Snape's old book be in the cabinet. After all, he used to teach the class. And as soon as Snape saw what Harry did, he immediately asked ot see Harry's books. So he must've known that the book was there. I mean who else would remember their old potions book that fast if they hadn't seen it since their school years? But I don't think it was plan. Although Snape must've wanted someone to see it if he left it there in the open.

But he must have left it in the classroom so no one would find it and "steal" his spells! He must have known that it was there!

I think it was luck that Harry got the book, but Snape knew it was there. I think he intended it to go to someone else.
Whats the point in creating spells and stuff if others dont learn how "Great" the Half Blood Prince was?

Snape was not the original owner of that book. When Harry examined that book, he noticed it was written 50 years ago. There is only one person we know of that was there 50 years ago, Tom Riddle. Knowing there was a connection between Tom and Harry, I think Slughorn recoginized the book and gave it to Harry, not realizing the book had been used by Snape. When Snape got the book he realized its history. He had a great desire to a deatheater, and maybe envisioned himself as #1 deatheater, and decided to give himself a title as Tom did. What better title than Prince, after his mother. A prince is one step below king. I think Snape had been the potions master for so long he forgot the book was in the cabinet.

Now that i think of it, i think Slughorn planned it because he knew about lily and everything and Slughorn was in Slytherin :]

i agree!^^^

i think he looked at it a lot and stuff. i mean all his spells he made were in their so he must have either forgotten it (doubt it tho) or maybe he wanted some slytherins to find it?
idk but i think it was just luck.


im sorry but i disagree a lot with that.
how do you kno it was Tom's?


and its not that he remembered his old potions books so fast.
he remembered the spell! thats why he asked.
and then maybe he realized he had forgotton it or something.

I really dont think that anyone planned for that book to fall into Harrys hands. The book makes him more powerful so I think it was just luck that he came upon Snapes potions book.

i think it was just luck...

if snape had planned it he wouldnt have been so agro and hard on him in the bathroom...and plus giving a book to harry with dark stuff in the book...would be stupid and totally idiodic...i mean he used one of the spells on malfoy

I think it was just luck. I think neither of them knew that the book was still in the potions classroom. And I think Snape would never have left the book in Harry's possession had he known. Of course, if Harry had known the book had been Snape's in the first place, Harry would have chucked the book back and gotten his new one back.

It was luck Harry got the book of snape. (He never need the Lucky portion Because he is Always lucky in lot of time) No one planned it.

I think its mere luck. The book could have even gone to Ron by chance if he was first up. So no planned stuff!

I think it was just an accident. I can't really come up with any logical explanation as to why it'd have happened on purpose.
I mean, can you really see Snape putting it there to aid Harry when he hates him so much? Also, Slughorn didn't know Harry would be taking Potions (Snape made it so only the highest OWL mark would allow Potions at NEWT level- remember?).
It was only when McGonogall asked Harry why he wasn't taking Potions that first morning at breakfast. So yes, I think it was just by chance Harry ended up with the book.

I think it was just luck. After all, teachers had to go to school too and maybe Snape just left it there after he was done at school for future student reference. Or he forgot about it one day and never went back for it.

I don't think it was luck, because their were so many nice books of choice and him and Ron probably fought to get a better book and seeing that he wasn't going to get a better one than Ron; he chose at random..

I think it was coincident that harry got HBPs book. I do not see what Snape or Slughorn could get from that, so why did they have to plan that? The one who planed that was J.K.Rowling (actually)

Mixture of luck and somebody putting it there for Harry to get. Snape, or Slughorn, one of them most likely wanted Harry to get it but couldn't have handed it right to him. So they planted it with the others hoping Harry would join the class, and not get another version but the "Half-Blood Prince's" book. But it's probably just chance.

I think it was luck.