50 Years Old...

[fanofminerva]

No: HPFGUIDX 135084

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Auria" <rytal at y...> wrote:
> > Shaista said:
> > > I thought that when Harry checked the date on the HBP potions
> > > book that it was 50 years old... how can that be?  Snape could 
> > > not have been around 50 years ago... is the book perhaps, 
> > > secondhand?  
> > 
> > Bex:
> > The book was originally Eileen Prince's passed on to her son.
> 
> 
> On that theme,I rewatched the film of CoS and apparently it was 50 
> years ago from when Harry opens the diary that the Chamber was 
> opened.  At that time both Tom Riddle and Hagrid were at 
Hogwarts.  
> So it seems that Tom Riddle was at school the same time as Eileen 
> Prince, Snape's mother.  I wonder if that has any relevance 
somehow? 
> 
> Also, assuming both TR and Hagrid were in their teens at the time, 
> that would now make their ages both in their 60s.  I never 
realised 
> that Voldemort and Hagrid were that old! Anyone have any comments?
> 
> Rita


I just had a thought (probably more like a brain burp)...Tom Riddle 
is Snape's biological father!  Now there's one for the shippers!

Julie