The "Gang of Slytherins" (wasThe Lucius Sting Theory/Bella's "cadre " )

houyhnhnm102 celizwh at intergate.com
Fri Apr 14 20:54:22 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 150940

Carol:

> So when Bella suggests Crucioing Frank Longbottom to 
> force him to tell what he knows about LV (picking up, 
> I agree, on Lucius's strategically dropped hint), her 
> boys (who would actually be men in their late twenties 
> if they're close to her age)
[snip]
> Carol, still trying to figure out why Rabastan is so 
> often overlooked when people talk about the Lestranges 
> ("They're a married couple") and why JKR bothered to give 
> Rodolphus a brother when so far he seems unnecessary to 
> the plot.

houyhnhnm:

They could have even been in their thirties, as Bellatrix herself
would have been 30, at the time of LV's demise.

Which is something that's been bothering me since the Black family
tree was made public.

In GoF27, Sirius says:
"Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids
in seventh year, and he was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly
all turned out to be Death Eaters"

Sirius held up his fingers and began ticking off names.

"Rosier and Wilkes--they were killed by aurors the year before
Voldemort fell.  The Lestranges--they're a married couple [or
trio]--they're in Azkaban."

Snape could not have been part of a gang that included Bellatrix while
he was at Hogwarts.  She is at least eight years older than he.  Thus
their school years could not have overlapped at all, although, if her
husband is younger than she is, he could have been at Hogwarts when
Snape was, and so could the brother-in-law, but only just barely.

Still, Sirius, says "The Lestranges--they're a married couple".  He is
definately including Bellatrix.  Is he lying, or getting the Hogwarts
years mixed up with the '78-'81 years even though he supposedly
doesn't know anything about Snape's activities during that period?  Or
is it just that hopelessly math-challenged Ms. Rowling striking again?

PS:  Talisman,  I loved the Sting Theory.  I'm ready to adopt it.







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