Questioning the Lexicon yet again: Lucius Malfoy

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No: HPFGUIDX 84736

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, nymphadoraotonks at a... wrote:

> I believe we have gauged the marauders somewhere near mid-thirty? 
It would 
> make perfect sense.
> -Tonks

Harry sees James and the others in the Pensieve taking their OWLs. 
At that time, his father was sixteen or possibly still fifteen.

In chapter 29, this phrase appears:

"He could abandon the plan and simply learn to live with the memory 
of what his father had done on a summer's day more than twenty years 
ago
"

That means that Harry is a little more than twenty years younger 
than his father. It is unlikely that the difference is as much as 25 
years or the phrase would be "almost 25 years" or "more than 25 
years ago." 

James and his friends (who are never called The Marauders in the 
book, by the way...talk about contamination!) are or would be about 
36 years old in book five. Lucius Malfoy is 41.

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon