Pince/Filch was Re: Why DD trust Snape

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 152529


> houyhnhnm:> 
> However, I had been taking it as established canon that Eileen 
Prince
> was at Hogwarts at the same time as Tom Riddle.  I was thinking the
> date of the article about the Gobstones Club was mentioned in the
> text.  After checking, I see that it wasn't.  I guess the reasoning
> went like this:  1) The advanced potions textbook was "nearly fifty
> years old".  2) If Snape was using a second-hand textbook, it was
> probably his mother's.  3)  Hence, his mother must have been a sixth
> or seventh year Hogwarts student nearly fifty years ago.

Potioncat:
OK, you make a good point. We aren't really given a date for Eileen, 
just the idea that the book was published about 50 years ago. In 
fact, that information actually misleads us from the author of the 
spells.

But, I do think JKR intended us to understand that the 50 year old 
book belonged to Eileen so here's the time line I came up with:

Harry starts school in 91.

HBP is set in school year 96/97

Fifty years ago is 46/47

Eileen looks 15 (50 years ago) so would have been born in 31/32

Riddle is listed in the Lexicon as 25/26.

If she was born in 1931/32 she was around 28 or 29 when Snape was 
born. We aren't sure if he was born in Jan 1959 or Jan 1960.

Potioncat, who wonders if anyone appreciates the irony of my working 
out timelines or birthdates!