James and Snape in the same year? was Re: Snape and Lily- I just can't see it

[Ali <Ali@zymurgy.org>]

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 Barb <psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
 
<<  As I pointed out, we don't even know whether James and Snape were 
in the same year.>>

I actually think that we can say with a fair degree of certainty that 
they *were* in the same year.

All evidence from UK hardback edition of PoA:-

p. 259 Lupin gives us sufficient information to know that the 
marauders were in the same year together. When discussing animagus 
transformation he says "Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it". 
IMO if they were in different years, Lupin would have said "finally 
in *my* fifth year....

p.261 discussing Snape: "We were in the same year".

Thus whilst there is no passage which states that James was in the 
same year as Snape, we do know that James was in the same year as 
Lupin who was in the same year as Snape. IMO this is evidence that 
they were in the same year together.

Ali

Who agrees that there must be something in the Snape/Lily 
relationship.