Pince/Filch was Re: Why DD trust Snape

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 152516

Steven1965aaa:
> 
> Good one.  Would have been poor judgment in selecting the name, but 
> not as bad as thinking a cheese caldron was a good idea whose time 
> had come.  That makes me wonder though, I'm terrible with the 
> timing/dates analysis, but given the ages and the date of the HBP 
> potions book, is it possible that Prince went to Hogwarts at the 
> same time as LV and Hagrid?  If he knew her then, he would have 
> known her as Prince.

Ceridwen:
I have some trouble assigning Eileen Prince a birthdate which would 
place her at Hogwarts at the same time as Hagrid and Riddle.  She 
could have been an older mother, of course, but if Snape and his 
yearmates were all born around 1958 - 1960, and if Eileen followed 
the then-current trend of marrying soon after school, she would have 
been 18 - 20 years old, give or take, which would place her in the 
graduating class of 1956, 1957, 1958, or 1959 at the latest.  Riddle 
attended Hogwarts in the 1940s, if his time there was fifty years 
before Harry's.

As for the book, it could have been second-hand when Eileen got it, 
or it could have been new, but still from that earlier printing.  I 
don't have the book handy, but I seem to recall that they didn't give 
a year that it was issued, it was only said to be about fifty years 
old.  So, a clue from the date of the book would still place Eileen 
Prince at least a couple of years behind Tom Riddle, since the year, 
at 'around fifty years earlier', would be somewhere around 1946.  
Most sites I've seen where there is a timeline place Riddle as 
leaving Hogwarts around 1945.

There's nothing to say that Eileen was not an older mother, though.  
It does happen.  The Potters were supposed to be older parents who 
doted on their sole offspring, James.

Ceridwen.