Rosier, Rookwood, Snape's gang of Slytherins

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 144565

"ellecain" <ellecain at y...> wrote:

>  In the scene in HBP, Voldemort is around 35 years old  by my 
> calculations and Snape is eighteen years into the future.
> So Rosier is at least 18 years older than Snape.
> How could he have been a part of the Slytherin gang then?
zgirnius:
As a guess, the Rosier of the Marauders' Era was the son of the 
Rosier of the Riddle Era. That is also most likely the case with the 
Lestranges (that they are two generations of Death Eaters). In the 
Pensieve scene with the Lestrange brothers and Bellatrix Lestrange, 
no mnetion is made that she seems much younger than they are. She is 
a rough contemporary of Snape and the Marauders, though several years 
ahead in school. So I would guess this is also true of Avery.

ellecain:
> The more I look at those two passages I think Snape did not have 
any 
> friends in school. He was not in contact with future DEs anyway.
> He could not have hung around with Lucius since he is 6 years older 
> than Snape. That leaves Bella and Cissy.Highly unlikely IMO.
> Anyway I'm confused. Help!

zgirnius:
Well, if you buy my argument above, there are more names. But the 
only ones we know anything about agewise are Lucius and Bellatrix, 
who are too old to have been close friends of Snape. And I guess the 
Lestrange who married Bella (I forget which it was) was probably of 
about the same age... (I personally do not believe Narcissa is a 
Death Eater. Just a sympathizer and wife of one.) So Snape may not in 
fact have had friends around, particularly in later years.