[HPforGrownups] Re: RE: Who did Bertha see kissing

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 76283

In a message dated 8/8/2003 3:54:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
kozmoz4 at yahoo.com writes:

> We know that Lucius is 41 now, making him 26 when
> Harry and Draco was born; 9 years after Hogwarts
> graduation. Assuming Harry was born right after his
> parents' marrige, the Potters should be 18 when Harry
> was born. So, assuming Snape was 13 when Bertha was
> sixteen, that would make the Marauders also 13 and
> Lucius 21, and not a student in Hogwarts. So it cannot
> be Lucius Bertha saw. Of course, we don't know Harry
> was born right after marriage, and we don't know Snape
> was 13 when BErtha was 16, so we can only make wild
> guesses about the identity of the Mystery Man.
> 

Lucius is 41 in OotP (late 1995) - Sev (& by extension, the Marauders) is, 
per JKR's statement, 36 or 37 at that point, some 5-6 years younger.  41 in 1995 
would have made him Hogwarts Class of 1972.  Sev & the Marauders would have 
been '77 or '78.

Sherrie


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