Snape the Gryffindor or Ravenclaw?!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 93373

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.)<<



"tipgardner": 
>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.<
 


Harry is not quite a fifth-year yet when the conversation occurs. It's
still summer. I think Bellatrix left at the end of Sirius's fourth
year (her seventh) rather than the beginning of his fifth (which would
be her first year away from Hogwarts). Hope that clears up the confusion.

Carol