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→‎Greater Picture: handwriting style bugged me...
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Harry chides Hermione for claiming that the Half-Blood Prince could be a girl. Although he is right that a royal female is a princess and not a prince, in this particular instance Hermione was more accurate. It will be learned that the "prince" referred to here is not a royal title at all. Rather, it is someone's surname, and it could therefore have applied to either a male or female. Although Hermione is ultimately wrong that the book's previous owner was a female, nor does she realize yet it is someone's name, that surname did indeed belong to a woman. Hermione demonstrates that her logic is more abstract and intuitive than Harry's typical linear reasoning. Rowling is dropping a subtle clue here that readers should look beyond the seemingly obvious.
 
One would think that perhaps the Half-Blood Prince's identity could be learned from his handwriting. In a parallel case earlier, the writing on the notes that had been pinned to Harry's [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Invisibility Cloak|Invisibility Cloak]] was described as "narrow [and] loopy." The note which was used to tell Harry of the existence of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Number 12, Grimmauld Place]] was a "narrow handwriting [that] was vaguely familiar." These two items later proved to have been written by Professor Dumbledore, as are a letter in "narrow, slanting handwriting" that Harry received [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 3|earlier in this book]], and the note Harry received [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 9|just now]], also in narrow, slanting handwriting, setting the time for Dumbledore's first private lesson. Harry recognizes the similarity here, even if we don't; and we can suppose that Dumbledore chose to make his writing more ornate and loopy on the occasion of his sending the Cloak as a gift. However, we are not granted this clue when dealing with the Half-Blood Prince. In [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix/Chapter 15|the previous book]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Snape]]'s grade on one of Harry's essays is described as a "large, spiky black 'D'," while the Half-Blood Prince's notations are described as "small, cramped writing." We do learn later that Snape was the Half-Blood Prince, though the handwriting does not bear this out. It is possible, of course that Snape's writing had changed over the years, or that he had adopted a different writing style to fit all his thoughts in the limited space afforded by margins or perhaps a hint in Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix in which Harry observed Snape's writing on an owl exam by means of the pensieve; in any event, we don't learn of the connection via the writing style.