SoBe, I agree with you.

I just looked back at my diagram. Many of my blogs are written very late at night after very long workdays and I don’t always get it right.

I have years of experience working with calligraphy pens (both metal and quill) and I know the first rule of penmanship is never to go against the direction of the pen because it will resist the movement, stutter, and, as you say, will spatter ink.

Hello, Stephen, no I haven’t seen Albus’s analysis, but that’s an interesting observation. It also looks to me to be similar to German, perhaps old German or a polyglot version of German (or Yiddish). Parts of the last page also have some of the characteristics of Latin, but I’m not as sure that it is Latin itself or perhaps some Latin-sounding adaptation to create a charm, the sounds of which might be more significant than actual meaning. I hadn’t considered that it might be a recipe, I’m still leaning toward it being a healing charm, but I’ll give the recipe angle some thought.