[HPforGrownups] Did Tom go to school with James?

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 46823


Bright Eyes <brighteyes at completely-incomplete.net> wrote:
My question is kind of in the title (sorry if it's vague though) we know James, Lupin, Sirius, Peter and Severus were all at school at the same time, we also know Hagrid and Tom were at school together. Does anyone know when Lucius was at school? I wondered if he went to school at the same time as Tom? Also were Tom and Hagrid at school at the same time as James and co? Or are we to assume they're older than the others? Does anyone have any answers?

Me:
At the time of GoF, JKR said that Snape was 35 or 36.  That would make him about 20-21 years older than Harry.  Since Snape was in school at the same time as the Marauders, they're also probably about 20-21 years older than Harry and therefore born in the late fifties or no later than 1960.  Hagrid was a 13-year-old in 1943, if Tom Riddle took Harry back in time exactly fifty years, so he would have been born in 1930, and Tom in 1927.  
 
We don't know enough about Lucius Malfoy.  If Arthur and Molly Weasley began having children in the mid-sixties (somewhere between 1964 and 1967) and they weren't long out of school at the time, they could be born somewhere between 1945 and 1948; if they didn't have kids right out of school, they could be born just about any time before that (although we don't even know whether they're the same age--we just know that Molly was out with Arthur rather late one night while they were still in school <g>).  
 
While Arthur and Lucius seem to know each other pretty well and have a history of animosity, that could date from the first reign of terror under Voldemort, and not necessarily from a school rivalry.  But even though I suspect Lucius went to school either after the Weasleys or just as they were finishing school (at the earliest) I would personally have a hard time imagining him in school at the same time as Tom.  Even if he was a first year when Tom was a seventh year, he'd be born in 1934, making him around 60 years old during GoF.  I'm just not seeing it.  Twenty years after that (1954) seems about right to me, but I'm afraid I can't necessarily justify my gut feeling about this (although I like that this would make him a possible prefect or even Head Boy when the Marauders were mischievous first or second years.)  We don't really have any way of knowing how old Lucius is, and there are no concrete figures on the Weasleys either, but perhaps we'll find out in some future book or a JKR interview.
 
--Barb
 
 


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