Severus / Bellatrix / Dursleys

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 150981

Carol wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/150922 :

<< As for a day job between the time Severus left Hogwarts and was
hired as Potions Master four years later, I've always imagined that he
set up a little potions shop with a basement lab, funded by his dear
friend Lucius Malfoy, as a front for the experimental, dangerous,
and/or illicit potions he was making for Voldemort. (Just a bit of fun
speculation.) >>

I thought he was a grad student in Potions, I mean an apprentice and
then journeyman in the Potioneers Guild. (Which presumably is not the
same as Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers because the latter
was founded by Hector Dagworth-Granger, and the former must go back at
least to the Middle Ages.)

Carol wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/150936 :

<< (It's no coincidence, IMO, that despite young Bella's sultry beauty
and her marriage to another pureblood, she's childless.) >>

We don't know that Bellatrix has no children, only that she has no
sons. If she had borne a daughter when all the other main characters
were born, *something* would have been done with the girl when both
parents were sent to Azkaban. I suppose she would have been put into 
a foster family, maybe sent to be raised by her Aunt Andromeda as
Nymphadora's little sister.

I can't imagine young Bella *wanting* to tie herself down with a
child, but I'm still clinging desperately to the few remaining shards
of my theory that there are so many DE children in Harry's year
because either LV ordered all his followers, or LM ordered his sub-set
of LV's followers, to get busy spawning.

Draeconin wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/150948 :

<< We are told that it was to maintain the blood magic protection
placed upon Harry by his mother. But for all anyone knew for sure,
Voldemort was dead. His followers were either being rounded up, or
were busy covering their tracks.  Even if it had been known for sure
that Voldemort was NOT dead (all Dumbledore had to go on was a
prophecy, remember), he was still too weak to be any kind of threat. >>

I think Dumbledore KNEW that Voldemort was not dead 'n' gone, because
Dumbledore knew about the Horcruces.