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

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 121831

> > 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.
>

Kethryn one more time -

Sorry, brain flash just before I logged for the night.  Wasn't that also the
summer that Sirius basically told the family to take a long walk off a short
pier?  So it would make sense if Bella was in and out of the family house
(regardless of her marital status) all the time...

Keth