Hey Lexicon Steve! McGonagall/Riddle SHIP

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89971

> > Carol:
> > I think, though I can't go into detail because I should be doing
> > something else, that there's at the least a five-year gap in their
> > ages. I think a two-year gap is pushing it. And I think that the
> > chances of McGonagall as much as kissing a much younger Slytherin 
> boy are slim to none. And since JKR has said that she's not going to 
> have Hermione becoming a teenage unwed mother, I think we can assume 
> that premarital sex between characters fifty or so years before the 
> current events isn't part of the backstory.
> 
> 
> Erin:
>  Take all the time you need to answer, I know how it feels to have 
> other stuff to do.  But I am curious; why a five-year gap?  Why not 
> two years?  I personally think two or three is the length of time 
> suggested by the interview.  Seven is what the Lexicon is pushing.  
> So any particular reason for five?
> 
>
Carol:
I can't check this now because I'm rushed for time, but I think that
McGonagall is 70, LV is 65, and Hagrid is 62 in GoF. I'm thinking of
JKR's interviews plus the fifty-year gap between the first and second
openings of the Chamber of Secrets. (I'm taking fifty years as an
exact figure based on Hermione's reaction in CoS.) Maybe someone who
knows the book and interviews inside out can provide links and page
numbers. Right now, I shouldn't even be here!

Carol