Bellatrix's age (Was: Narcissa Malfoy )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121893


Kethryn wrote:
> 
> To me, the quote (thanks for providing it *G*) doesn't indicate that
he met
> her at Hogwarts at all.  She could have been at the Black house the last
> time he saw her, doing something with his mum.  You know, they are
family,
> like it or not, so it is conceivable that he ran into her at what
was about
> not to be his home anymore.  For all we know, she was actually the
reason he
> decided not to go back home anymore.  Also, the way JKR has written the
> little bits we have seen of her character, I do imagine her as being
about
> Lucius's age (although I do admit that Azkaban might prematurly age a
> person).  Sigh.  This could be yet another thing we will never know.

Carol responds:
If she *is* Lucius's age, that's only two years older than the age I'm
postulating for her. Lucius is five years older than MWPP and Snape;
I'm postulating three for Bella. I never said that Sirius *met* her at
Hogwarts. Certainly when they were both small children of say, seven
and ten respectively, they could have seen each other at family
gatherings, though the Blacks don't seem like the type to hold
parties. At any rate, if she married and joined the DEs right out of
Hogwarts, she probably didn't spend much time visiting her aunt and
uncle. We can speculate that he saw her at family gatherings, but we
*know* he saw her at school and that she was part of the same gang
that invited the clearly younger Severus to join it. So again, it
makes sense that he last saw her at school, probably at the
end-of-term banquet in her final year or her last ride home on the
Hogwarts Express. and since he last saw her when he was Harry's age,
that last banquet or ride would have been the one at the end of his
fourth year.

Carol

Carol