Mistaken identity - part three

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 80588

Doriane:

>>We know that Bertha was the gossiping kind. We also know that 
Sirius was extremely good-looking, so it's not that wild an 
assumption that Bertha would try and attract his attention, like half 
the girls in the castle. So imagine Bertha coming up to Sirius, right 
after the kissing scene, which admittedly took place a little after 
the grey-pants scene :
<snip big dialogue>
Does it sound credible ?>>

No, sorry. As someone else on this thread has just pointed out, 
Bertha was about two or three years *older* than MWPPSL. If she was 
sixteen at the time, they would not be of an age to sit their OWLS, 
so it couldn't have been after the grey pants incident. This is the 
problem I've always had with Florence theories, particularly the 
Snape variant - if Harry and Ron have very little interest in girls 
age 13-4, *Snape* at the same age is not likely to be more socially 
developed than they are. OoP just confirmed it for me. And for the 
same reason, I don't see any reason why Bertha would try and attract 
the attention of a boy 2-3 years younger than herself, no matter how 
good looking he was. 
I liked the dialogue, though.
Kirstini