[HPforGrownups] Re: Narcissa Malfoy (WAS: Everything Stolen (WAS: Why the Dark Mark?

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 121830


> 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.

Kethryn again -

I think that is assuming too much, to tell you the truth.  I can't find that
particular quote that you are referring to, do you by chance have a page
number?  I am only asking because I did not read Sirius' statement to mean
that the last time he saw Bella was at Hogwarts and I distinctly remember
thinking at the time that he could have been at her wedding which makes the
rest of his statement infinitly more believable.  After Bella married
whichever Lestrange it was, she would have moved into his house/their new
home and Sirius (who wasn't all that fond of Bella or the Lestranges) would
not have gone to visit.  Not that I am saying that it was a wedding, for all
I know, they ran into each other at a garden party.

Kethryn who hopes that makes sense...it is very late for me.