You know that book Professor Dolohov had us get, 'Grimoires of the Worthy Families'?
The Blacks had a first-edition copy AND Sirius Black's evil 18th century ancestor wrote notes in all the margins with personal comments about the people he thought had provided the spells. It's, like, two-hundred-year-old vindictive gossip. PLUS he has all sorts of comments on how this person's version of the spell isn't as effective as his own version and so on. I am pretty sure that in at least a few cases, it's the Ancestral Black version that made it into the edition we use.
Of course we cannot possibly show this to Professor Dolohov.
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The Blacks had a first-edition copy AND Sirius Black's evil 18th century ancestor wrote notes in all the margins with personal comments about the people he thought had provided the spells. It's, like, two-hundred-year-old vindictive gossip. PLUS he has all sorts of comments on how this person's version of the spell isn't as effective as his own version and so on. I am pretty sure that in at least a few cases, it's the Ancestral Black version that made it into the edition we use.
Of course we cannot possibly show this to Professor Dolohov.
I sort of wish we could, though.