Three Black sisters on a tree

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 106770

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:

> Now I properly credit Carol for first posting that Bellatrix is 3 
yrs 
> older than Sirius (and thus also the other Marauders, Lily and 
> Snape). This follows from Sirius telling Harry: "I haven't seen her 
> since I was your age, unless you count a glimpse of her coming into 
> Azkaban." Since Harry had just turned 15 at this point, it seems 
> Sirius was in his forth (or possibly fifth) year at Hogwarts when 
> Bella was in her seventh year.

I take this as meaning she is AT LEAST 3 years older, but could be 
more.  If Andromeda is 3 years older, perhaps the last time he saw 
Bellatrix was at the end of Andromeda's 7th year - or maybe at a 
family event after both had left Hogwarts (Maybe at Narcissa's 
wedding to L. Malfoy).  At 16 he left the family, and probably no 
longer attended such events, but I would have expected him to have 
been at such an even before that.

This allows Andromeda to have left Hogwarts before becoming pregnant, 
and allows Narcissa to be closer in age to L. Malfoy (or even the 
same age)