Snape's housemates

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 113458

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at a... wrote:
> 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? 
snips

Do we know that Bellatrix is that much older than him? I don't 
remember Sirius mentioning that she was older when he pointed her 
out on the Black Family Tree, Though we know Malfoy is five years 
older. But there is no reason not to assume that some of the other 
DEs are not Snape's age or year. (Though, then again we have no 
canon either way!) 
Meri