CHAPDISC: HBP 2, Spinner's End (Bella)

[Little lama]

No: HPFGUIDX 142452

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at i...> 
wrote:
>
> > Hi, Lama here.  Just a small point ... I think the 'Lestranges' 
who 
> > Sirius was referring to would have to be Rodolphus and his 
brother 
> > Rabastan and any other siblings in their family.  Bella wasn't a 
> > Lestrange during her Hogwarts days, as she hadn't married one of 
> > them yet - she was Bellatrix Black.  So she was not listed by 
Sirius 
> > as one of the Slytherin gang members, and we can't really assume 
> > that she knew Snape at school.
> 
> houyhnhnm quotes:
> 
> "...he was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned out 
to
> be Death Eaters."
> Sirius held uphis fingers and began ticking off names.
> "Rosier and Wilkes--they were both killed by aurors the year before
> Voldemort fell.  The LaStranges--they're a married couple--they're 
in
> Azkaban...." (GoF, Scholastic, p. 531)
>

Lama: Oops, my mistake ... haven't looked at GoF for so long I am 
starting to forget whole paragraphs.. :)  and was probably confunded 
by the proximity of this to when Sirius was referring back to their 
school days a moment earlier.

I still get the impression there's at least enough age difference 
between Bella and Snape that she was a senior girl at Hogwarts when 
he was a junior boy.  In which case she would hardly have noticed 
him at school, let alone be socialising with him after hours.

After all she seems to have quite a thing for VM, and he's got to be 
about 70 by the time Spinner's End takes place.

Lama