Lucius Malfoy's Age (was: Who Knows Tom Riddle is Voldemort?)

[Devika]

No: HPFGUIDX 55604

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lea <d_lea25 at y...> wrote:
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> 
> Does anyone know for sure if Draco has any siblings?  I can't 
recall anything from canon.  In GoF the Malfoys attend the QWC with 
Draco only. Which, IMHO, would place Lucius approximately the same 
age as James and Lilly, perhaps a touch older, but not by much.  
Keeping in mind that the Weasleys have 7 children - there's no way 
that the Malfoys are in the same age bracket.
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> Any thoughts?  
> 

I don't think we can assume that Lucius is the same age as Lily and 
James just because Draco and Harry are the same age.  According to 
JKR in an interview, Snape is 35 or 36 years old.  I'm not sure when 
that interview was, but I think it was in reference to book 4.  That 
means that James and Lily would have been about 36 or 37 (let's say 
37) at the start of OoP.  Since Harry is 15, he would have been born 
when Lily was 22.  I know of people who have had their first children 
at around this age, but that doesn't mean that a lot of people don't 
wait until they are older.  Also, it's possible that Lucius may have 
married later in life.  I don't have much to base this on, but 
Narcissa seems like the younger trophy wife type to me.  It's 
entirely possible that Lucius is closer in age to Arthur Weasley.

Lucius Malfoy's interaction with Arthur Weasley suggests that their 
mutual animosity stems from something other than their differing 
beliefs about Muggles.  While this doesn't mean that they were at 
Hogwarts together, it seems likely that they have had some kind of 
personal interaction, which might be more feasible if they were 
closer in age.  Also, Sirius never makes any mention of Malfoy.  I 
think that Sirius would probably know, or at least suspect, that 
Malfoy had been a DE.  If Sirius had known, or at least known of, 
Malfoy at Hogwarts, he probably would have said something to Harry.

None of this is conclusive, but somehow I just think that Lucius 
Malfoy is older than Harry's parents would be.  IMO, the fact that 
children are the same age doesn't mean that their parents are 
necessarily even close in age.

Devika