Earlier time frame before HP was born

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191314

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Stephanie" <sdlively at ...> wrote:

Stephanie:
> Just got wondering so if this has been talked about just direct
> where, I'll go look. You don't have to put this into years date,
> although that would be fun to do, at least for me.
> 
> We know that Snape, James Potter, Lily, Lupin, Peter and Sirius
> were all in the same year at Hogwarts.
> 
> Riddle and Hagrid were at Hogwarts at the time time if not in the
> same year and DD was a teacher of some subject at the time and
> was well as Slug. Wonder if any other teachers of Harry's years
> were already teachers or students still around this time.
> 
> Well anyway, I was wondering was Riddle in school with Snape, Lily,
> Lupin, Peter and Sirius and maybe in the same year?
> 
> I know that in their four years, Snape, Lily, James, Lupin, Peter,
> Sirius, after Snape calls Lily "Mudblood." Later he tries to make up
> with Lily but she won't have anything to do with him anymore and
> she doesn't like his death eater friends either.
> 
> I just wonder if maybe Snape and Riddle were in the same year
> because Snape is about the only Death Earter, that I see, that
> isn't afraid when he is around Riddle. Or at least he doesn't show
> it. Well it isn't fear but you can see a difference between Snape
> and other death eaters.

GEoff:
The short answer is "no".

We know from the gravestones at Godric's Hollow that James and 
Lily both lived from 1960-1981.
(DH "Godric's Hollow" p.268 UK edition)

Hence they would have been at Hogwarts from 1971-1977.

We know from COS that the opening of the Chamber of Secrets 
occurred in the autumn of 1992, evidenced by Nearly Headless 
Nick's  500th Deathday Party on Hallowe'en.Tom Riddle's diary 
which contained what later transpired to be one of the Horcruxes 
was fifty years old when it came into the hands of Ginny and 
Harry and was destroyed. So Tom Riddle was a senior student 
at Hogwarts in 1942, thirty years or so before the Marauders.