Voldemort's recruitment . Was: Precious little to celebrate for 11 years...

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Rebecca:
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Secondly, I did some basic math with those years and came up with 
something interesting. According to JKR, Sirius (and by implication, 
the other three mauraders and Lily and Snape), was 22 at the time 
Dumbledore said that, which means at the start of Voldemort's rule, 
they were in their first year at Hogwarts. I guess its pretty 
obvious, but I had never made that connection before. IMO, this sheds 
a lot of light on the relationship between Snape and James, and why 
Sirius made a specific point of mentioning that James hated the dark 
arts. 

Alla:

Heeee! I am pretty proud of myself for making those connections 
before, that is why I am so adamant on insisting that animosity 
between Snape and James/Sirius goes  beyond simple hatred of school 
boys towards each other.

I always thought and will continue to think so untill JKR will 
disillusion me that those fights sort of reflected  the situation in 
the society, the climat outside of Hogwarts, so to speak. 


Rebecca:

Also, this means that Lucius Malfoy was 16 when Voldemort first rose 
to power, and the other DE's who showed up at the graveyard and the 
DoM were all most likely still in school as well. Was he already 
recruiting them? Surely they weren't *already* active DEs, unless 
they dropped out of school (probably not, since they weren't *open* 
DEs). Voldemort must not have been as successful as everyone thought 
then, because it appears all of his original followers either died in 
prison or were killed before they made it there. Were they the 
parents of the current DEs? 

Alla:

Now, this is the million dollar question I definitely want an asnwer 
too. I really, really want to know when Voldemort started recruting 
for two reasons. I want to know whether Peter indeed was passing 
information for a year before Potters' death or he was doing it for 
much longer AND I want to know when Snape was recruited too. It may 
explain SO many things.

As to Lucius Malfoy - well, I won't exclude the possibility that he 
was recruited at 16. Why not?


Just my  SPECULATIVE opinion, of course.

Alla,

who wants to applaud Rebecca for making " eleven years" connection. 
It is something I never thought of.