Narcissa Malfoy (WAS: Everything Stolen (WAS: Why the Dark Mark?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121806


Kethryn wrote:

Therefore, it is not too impossible to imagine 
> that Bellatrix is about Lucius' age, <snip>


Carol responds:
We know, however, that Sirius last saw Bellatrix when he was about the
age Harry is when he first comes to Grimmauld Place (between his
fourth and fifth years). Therefore it makes sense that her seventh
year corresponded with his fourth, which would make her three years
older than MWPP and Snape and two years younger than Lucius, who is 41
at the end of GoF as compared with Snape's 36. If I'm right about her
age, then she must be younger than Andromeda, who has to be at least
four or five years older than Sirius to have given birth to Tonks
after Hogwarts. But we know that JKR isn't good with "maths" and may
not have given much thought to the question. In any case, if Draco is
the heir to the Black estate through an entail on the estate (Jane
Austen, anyone?), the birth order of the sisters won't matter.

Carol