Snape's gang of Slytherins (Looks aren't everything! (was:Re: Sirius / Severus)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86765

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
> <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> > Carol:
> > Far from being the oldest, he was the youngest. The oldest, and
> > presumed leader, was Lucius Malfoy, six years older. Bellatrix, 
> from
> > internal evidence in OoP, was three years older than Snape. The 
> others
> > were probably somewhere in between. 
> 
> Nitpick: there's no evidence that Lucius was ever part of Snape's 
> group.  When Sirius names the "gang of Slytherins" that Snape hung 
> out with (GoF, P. 461, UK), he mentions only Rosier, Wilkes, the 
> Lestranges and Avery. Aside from the Lestarnges, we have no 
> information on any of their ages.  The fact that Snape walked out of 
> his OWL exam alone does suggest that most of his friends were in a 
> different year (otherwise they'd be walking out with him, just as 
> all the Marauders walked out together), but we don't know if they 
> were older or younger.
> 
> Marina
> rusalka at i...

Elsewhere Sirius refers to Snape as Lucius Malfoy's "lap dog,"
apparently meaning that he was a "little pet" to the much older
Malfoy, who would have been in his sixth year when Severus was in his
first. Also given what we know of Lucius Malfoy, he was very probably
the leader of the gang of Slytherins, with the leadership passing to
someone else (Bellatrix?) after he left. (Look at their respective
roles in the MoM scene.) I'm speculating, but the speculation is based
on canonical evidence.

Carol