[HPforGrownups] who the hell is Florence?

[Susan Hall]

No: HPFGUIDX 19586

>Wouldn't it be awesome if Florence was the girl Snape loved, and she became
>MRS. LESTRANGE!  Doubly intriguing.

Of course, the two behind the greenhouses could have been the future Mr and
Mrs Lestrange.  I can't see the kisser being either Snape or Sirius.  Sirius
says Bertha Jorkins was a few years ahead of him, and that she was very nosy
but had no brains.  He doesn't sound all that interested in her, or
resentful of her, or even "Golly she got me into so much trouble once when
she sneaked after me and I put Jelly Legs on her" about her.  All we know
about Florence was that the person kissing who kissed Florence  uses hexes
when annoyed. That doesn't necessarily imply he'd a dark wizard: so for that
matter do Ron, Hermione, Harry, Fred and George.  I suspect that the "he"
was a class contemporary of Bertha, simply because she would have found the
gossip rather more interesting to pursue, and that Florence would probably
have been the same age or younger (as you can see from the ball scenes in
GoF the improbability of a teenage boy going out with a girl a few years
older is clearly entrenched in the wizard world).  Florence could have been
a friend of Lily's who went to the bad when she became enthralled by a
charistmatic, Mosley-type Slytherin who convinced her of the importance of
saving Wizardry from muggle infiltration (Exeunt stage left, behoind the
greenhouses, singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me")

Susan