[HPforGrownups] RE: Who did Bertha see kissing Florence? Lucius Malfoy

[Diana Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 75922

From: "Zeynep Oner" <kozmoz4 at yahoo.com>
> I had discusswed this with my friends and the
> consensus is that the guy is Snape. He would put a
> curse on an Bertha, and the most fun fact is that
> once, I think, it was rumoured that in the 6. book we
> would meet a former love of Snape. I was so excited to
> learn that a female DADA teacher came, and was rather
> disappointed not to see any action for the old boy.


The only problem with Snape being the person with Florence is that Bertha
was several years older than Snape & the Marauders.  She looked "around
sixteen" to Harry in the Pensieve scene, which would make Snape 13-14 years
old at the time of the kiss with Florence.  Somehow, Snape just doesn't come
across as the "precocious with girls" type - Sirius or James, possibly,
although I think it's more likely that it was an older boy that Bertha saw
with Florence.  Several of us have discussed this elsewhere, and it seems
possible that it was Lucius Malfoy that Bertha saw kissing Florence.  He
could have been a 7th Year at the time of the kissing incident, and would
have been capable of hexing anyone.

Diana W.