Snape and Lucius ages Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: "Lapdog" and "snivel"

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 115031

> Dharma replies:
> relationship with Lucius.  I'm guessing that Severus had an
> attachment to Lucius at school that was similar to the attachment
> Peter had to James.

I always thought the LM/SS childhood relationship was fannon and the lapdog
comment referred to LM being an infamous and powerful DE.  I think SB thinks
LM was probably as powerful as a DE as he clearly is in everyday life, and
Snape was probably a potions-making nobody much as he is in real life.  On
JKR's  FAQ she says Sirius went into Azkaban at age 22 (1981).  Assuming SS
and SB are roughly the same age, that means when Harry was in his fith year
SS was 36.  In OOTP, Lucius is 41--five years older than Snape.  When snape
was 11, LM was 16, that's a hell of an age gap to overcome, especially for a
teenager who is more likely to be both socially selfish and self-conscious.
In my RL experience, I can't think of a 16 y-o I knew who would willingly
spend time with an 11 y-o for anything other than money (i.e. babysitting).
While I can imagine an 11 yo might idolize an older student, I can't see why
a 16 y-o LM would have any interest in a kid, any kid, five years behind
him.  LM would have graduated in SS's second or third yearwhich doesn't
really leave much time for

This seems to be reflected in canon as well.  The only older kids who cross
age lines to have significant social contact are the Weasleys and they only
do so to talk to their siblings (and friends) (who are only one year behind)
and later to test their products, but they don't have any real social
interaction with their guinea pigs.  Percy doesn't have more than peripheral
contact even with his siblings.  Even the older members of the Quidditch
teams don't seem to have much social contact with the much younger Harry.
It seems that the DA is big enough that it might actually foster some
cross-age (and inter-house) friendships if it continued.

Feklar