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

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Betsy:
But isn't Mr. Nott a great deal older than Lucius? IIRC, JKR said
something about that on her website. I'm wondering how you know the
ages of the other DEs in the graveyard? Does canon tell us anything?

Rebecca:
Of course, the DEs not mentioned might be the older ones, but I 
wonder why he wouldn't acknowledge the ones he's had the longest? The 
ones that are mentioned are all ones Sirius mentioned earlier in the 
book as being part of Snape's 'gang of Slytherins'. So they all had 
to be in school at the same time as Snape, so they were between the 
ages of 11 and 18 at the oldest when Voldemort first came to power. 

I completely agree with you that Snape was probably already being 
recruited at the time of the pensieve incident. By then Malfoy Sr. 
would have been out of school, and most likely had already joined 
Voldemort himself, he probably brought Snape in (just speculation of 
course, anyone from the 'gang' could have recruited him).


-HunterGreen/Rebecca