Snape's housemates

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 113446

Is it only me, or does it seem odd that we haven't heard of any of Snape's Slytherin housemates from his own year, other than the Mauraders? Assuming Snape was in Slytherin, why are all of his friends/associates--the "Slytherin gang"--so much older than him? If the older ones like Bellatrix and Lucius picked Snape specially to be part of their gang, what did they see in him that set him apart from the other Slytherins of his year? Or was there another reason, like a blood connection between Snape and the older Slytherins that we don't yet know about? Or, maybe Snape wasn't Slytherin, but he was invited into the Slytherin proto-Death Eaters gang because it was such a coup to get someone from another house to join their evil clan (especially if Snape was from Gyffindor). As others have noted, we still don't have any conclusive canon that Snape was in Slytherin. 

Just a few thoughts to ponder, while we look forward to some answers in the next book!

Julie