Snape the Gryffindor or Ravenclaw?!

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 93330

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> Potioncat:
> <snip>
> > Have you come across any canon that says Severus was hanging 
around 
> > older students? The portion I found doesn't say the others were 
> > older than he was. <snip>
> 
> Carol:
> I realize that Lucius Malfoy isn't mentioned as a member of this 
gang,
> but I see him (based on his relationship with the others in the MoM
> scene) as its natural leader while he was there. And yes, we have
> canonical evidence that he's 41 at the end of GoF whereas Snape is 
35
> or 36 in that book according to an interview, so he is five years
> older than Snape (assuming that Snape starts out 35 but turns 36 at
> some point during GoF).
> 
> 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,
 >snip<
> Another indication that the "gang" members are older than Severus 
is
> that they all seem to have left before the Pensieve scene--either 
that
> or they're a bunch of cowards who don't come to their friend's 
defense
> when he's being hung upside down by a pair of Gryffindor berks. Had
> they been in the same year as Severus, they would have been taking 
the
> same DADA O.W.L. exam and would almost certainly have witnessed the
> scene, but he seems to have become a loner by that point.
> 


Potioncat:
Good point on Bellatrix's age!

For some reason your last paragarph made me think of Neville.  Ron 
and Harry are good friends.  We're told (I think in GoF) that Dean 
and Seamus are best friends.  Where does that leave Neville?  I 
remember, one episode where Neville is hit with a jinx by Malfoy and 
has to hop all the way to the common room for someone to un-hex 
him.  As I remember it, everyone in the common room laughs.  Where 
were  his friends?  Of course, one can guess or probably find it in 
canon that Malfoy did this in secret, not in front of a group of 
people.
Potioncat