Kinda dumb question

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181920

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tandra" <tkjones9 at ...> wrote:

> I was watching COS the other day and a quote from Ron made me think. I
> know the movies are not always accurate to the books and that can be
> the simple answer but I'm not sure if he says the same thing in the
> book or not. They are in the bathroom make the polyjuice potion and
> Ron says something along the lines of "Lucious opened it when he was
> here at Hogwarts and now that Draco is here he can open it too." My
> question is...I thought Lucious was at school with Snape, James, Lily,
> Sirius, and Lupin. A year or two ahead but at school with them no?
> This quote would make Lucious in the age range of LV as opposed to the
> age range of the rest of the parents we meet in the series (Molly,
> Arthur, James, Lilly etc...) Ok I'm babbling and I'm not even sure if
> I phrased this right. PLEASE HELP!!! lol :-)


I don't know about the movie, but in the book, when Ron said his line 
about Lucius, he didn't know yet that the Chamber was opened 50 years 
ago. It goes like this:

1. Harry finds out from Dobby that the Chamber was opened before  ("The 
Rogue Bludger", p.178 Am.ed.), but not "when".

2. The next day Harry tells Ron and Hermione that the Chamber was 
opened before, and Ron says his line about Lucius, not knowing yet when 
exactly the Chamber was opened ("The Dueling Club", p.184).

3. Harry and Ron find out that the Chamber was opened 50 years ago, 
from Draco: "Of course, it was fifty years ago, so it was before his 
(Lucius's) time ..." ("The Polyjuice Potion", p.223).

So don't worry, Lucius is *not* the same age as LV :-). Hope it helps,


zanooda