Slyth. Seeker - Fudge - Grenouille & Crapaud

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18489

little Alex queried:

>What I want to know is, where was the old seeker to the Slytherin 
team, then?  Or was there one?

The Slytherin Seeker in PS/SS was Terence Higgs.  Perhaps he 
graduated?  We never hear of him again.

Jenfold wrote:

> For some reason I have the gut feeling that Fudge is younger than 
>the other two [Arthur, Lucius] but have no facts to back me up.
> Does anyone have any ideas?

The only things I know to help us pinpoint Fudge's age are that he was 
a junior minister in the MOM at the time Sirius was sent to Azkaban 
(PA 10); and he can't have been =too= new there, because within a 
couple of years he was Minister of Magic (GF, "Padfoot Returns").  So 
it's a safe bet he's several years older than MWPP, but beyond that, 
who knows?  

In my imagination, Arthur is ~50 in GF, Lucius perhaps a little 
younger, Fudge about the same age as Lucius (perhaps 46? in GF, making 
him about 34 when he became Minister--my, that seems young).  I have 
no canon info to back this up, however, other than our having 

-a minimum age for the senior Weasleys of about 41 in GF, probably 
quite a bit older (this is calculated from Bill's age--I take Bill to 
be about 14 years older than Ron, but there's a lot of wiggle room 
there),   

-and a maximum one for Lucius, who started school no earlier than 
1943 (the year after the Chamber of Secrets was opened) and probably 
quite a bit later than that, going by CS 12: "before his time, =of 
course="; the "of course" suggests it isn't even close.

Joywitch wrote:

> And Amanda, who got 7 questions right, pointed out
> that the names of the characters in the play, GRENOUILLE and 
CRAPAUD,
> mean FROG and TOAD in French.  (Frog and Toad is a childrens book,
> right?)

Amanda wrote:

>Not me! I hadn't caught it myself, someone else on the list did, I 
was
>regurgitating. Although I'd love to take the credit, it's a great 
catch.

It was me.  =Now= do I get 20% off at the Flying Ford Clinic?  Heaven 
knows I need their services.

Amy Z
hoping she isn't beyond hope

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