A Few More Twigs

[Neri]

> Heidi:
> >
> I hope he's not - if so, then Harry's grandmother's age will be very 
> problematic - while I'm willing to accept that a woman having a baby at 
> 40ish is on the old side, I can't imagine that jkr would describe that 
> as "late in life" or that James' parents were elderly when they died 
> when they really weren't.
> 

Neri:

The whole time issue in the tree is slightly fishy.

Draco's birth date is 1980. This confirms the official NHN deathday
cake dating of the Potterverse, which is nice. However, Narcissa's
birth date seems to be 1955, only one year younger than Lucius and 5
years older than the Marauders (1960 if the Lexicon is correct). This
would make Bellatrix (the eldest of the three sisters according to
HBP) at least 7 years older than the Marauders – she could hardly be
in the same gang with Snape. The only way to resolve this would be to
make the Marauders, Snape and Lily two or three years older than we
thought they are, not impossible but it would contrdict some things
JKR said in the past. 

Neri