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When will we see Harry's perspective?Not for a while, I'm afraid. Harry simply knows too much -- giving him a perspective would be like giving Snape or Dumbledore a perspective in the actual books. It would strip away the mystery, which would in turn make the story a lot less fun to write (and, perhaps, to read
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Your reasoning is quite good and very interesting for me to read. Harry did live in Berlin, but your suspicions about his language-learning abilities and time-travel are not very far off the mark . . .
Severus is indeed in Denial! Harry isn't necessarily jealous of his mother -- or at least, he isn't aware of being jealous as such. I think he simply wanted to prove something to himself and to Severus, namely that they can work together, that they can be friends . . . and that he, Kuhn, can be a clever Slytherin when he wants to. There is also an element of revenge to the contest; by winning the Shifter, Harry and Severus achieve a symbolic victory over Lily.
I do think that Lily is brilliant, or that she at least has the potential to be so. She is very good at Potions, good enough that Severus takes her work very seriously. I don't think she is as brilliant as Severus in the subject, but I think that also has to do with the fact that she doesn't devote herself exclusively to thinking about magical theory and its applications in Potions and spellcrafting, as Severus does. Lily is well-rounded -- good at many things. Severus certainly helped her, in the sense that he motivated her and taught her techniques and showed her the inventing spirit, but he also learned from her sense of aesthetics, for example. I will show this in more detail in a future chapter.
As for Harry's approach to the HBP -- well, I think the fact that the recipes worked was what especially got Harry's attention, but you're also right that he hoped the HBP was his father.
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