The Irma/Eileen Theory & Snape's Return/Teaching timeline

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 164284

Jen wrote:
> 1) JKR conceived a storyline for Eileen which placed her in Slytherin 
> house at the time of Riddle and could foreshadow a role for her 
> beyond being the reason Snape was in Slytherin and why he called 
> himself the HBP.
> 

Lyra
Does JKR officially place Eileen in Slytherin? (For the life of me, I 
can't find where the newspaper article about the Gobstone Queen is in 
HBP.) Based on the date in the book, I agree we can sorta 
(keeping "maths" in mind) conjecture Eileen may have been at Hogwarts 
around the same time as Tom Riddle, but I don't recall anything tying 
her to Slytherin aside from the fact she's a pureblood, (which, in and 
of itself, is no guarantee of being in Slytherin).