More on Sirius's Gang of Slytherins

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Neri" <nkafkafi at ...> wrote:

> Neri:
> I have a personal reason to prefer this solution, since my ACID 
> POPS* would work considerably better if Snape and Narcissa were in 
> the same year. But we're trying to make it all work regardless. The 
> problem with the "there's a flint" solution is that everybody tries 
> to get rid of the detail that he/she dislikes most <g>.

I don't see how Narcissa being a few years older crashes and burns 
ACID POPS.  If anything, we get this scenario: Narcissa was the 
beautiful and self-assured older girl, more advanced in her classes, 
who Snape had no good way of getting close to.  Oh, that's a scenario 
for unrequited whatever, particularly given his champion abilities at 
nursing ideas and resentments.

> Neri:
>
> A first year student would usually take notice of the seventh years 
> only if he absolutely must, and I can think of only one good reason 
> why he would also associate them with another first year. This 
> would be if the seventh years would terrorize the first years, and 
> one of the first years would become their informer who is protected 
> by them.  Which happens to fit well with Sirius and James accusing 
> Snape of Snivelling.

And if there ends up being any schooldays overlap between Sirius and 
Bella, I can't imagine her *not* exercising her superior abilities on 
her cousin, particularly as he's the Black sheep (hehehe) of the 
family.  The argument that "oh he's family she wouldn't beat up on 
him" must come from anyone who doesn't have siblings or cousins. =)

-Nora is a weak hand at chronology, herself