Snape the Gryffindor or Ravenclaw?!

tipgardner tipgardner at netscape.net
Thu Mar 18 02:16:28 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 93311

"justcarol67" wrote:
> Carol:
> As I mentioned in another post, we have canonical evidence that
> Bellatrix is about three years older than Sirius, who is roughly the
> same age as Snape. Sirius says to Harry (who is fifteen and about to
> enter his fifth year at Hogwarts): "I haven't seen her since I was
> your age, unless you count a glimpse of her coming to Azkaban" (OoP,
> Am. ed., 114). This remark seems to indicate that Bellatrix's seventh
> and last year corresponded with Sirius's and Severus's fourth year.
> (Either that or she left school early.)

Wouldn't that make Sirius a 5th year when she left school?  He says,
"since I was your age," to Harry and Harry is a 5th year.

"tipgardner" 





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