HPforGrownups] Simple Snape math

[Silverthorne]

No: HPFGUIDX 99659

I'm sure that people will find LOTS of wiggle rooom in this, but I thought I would lay it down.

In the first book, Harry is 11, Snape is approx. mid-30's according to interviews given by JKR. Granted, her math tends to be off, she even admits it, but here's the few facts I deduced from just that:

Harry 11, Snape 35

Harry Born, Snape 25...fast forward to LV's death, Snape 26, maybe 27.

It seems most WW children get their first wands upon acceptance to Hogwarts (or the equivilent)--at the age of 11. Using that as a guideline (and the appearent skill of the fly-zapping boy), Even at the most generous math, Snape's son, at 11--11 when Dad was 27, would have been *conceived* sometime during Snape's 15th year of life (incidentally, the same year as OWLs and when most of us assume the "prank' happened). Even if the son was given a wand earlier in life, the basic math would not change--Snape would have still been a very young father.

Although realistically possible....somehow, I don't see JKR having an underaged father as one of her plots--even a DE one. I could be wrong, but hey...

Silverthorne/Anne


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