More on Sirius's Gang of Slytherins

[Amanda]

> Kirstin Innes wrote:

> There's no Lexicon entry for the second event. 
> So - DE-ness seeping down the generations? I admit
> this is very possible in a WW prone to young
> parenting, but the Lexicon wording seems to imply that
> these are *the* Avery and Lestrange.
> 
> Could be one Lestrange brother 24+ years older than
> other, of course. Or a tricky little passage in GOF
> that JKR had forgtten about...
> 

Now me:  Kirsten, I recommend you read the essay I started this 
thread with. It might help to clear up some of your points.

The Lestrange and Avery who were in the Slug Club with Riddle and who 
also accompanied Tom into Hogsmead while the newly created Lord 
Voldemort asked DD for the DADA job are clearly the Death Eater 
fathers' of Rudolphus Lestrange and the Avery we meet as Death Eaters 
in the Canon. The Slug Club meeting in question was around 1945 and 
Riddle meet DD about 10 years later around 1955.  Making it very 
likely that their sons, the Lestrange Brothers and Avery `Jr.' would 
have been born in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The Death Eaters are a generational association for some members 
which indicates that Lestrange and Avery were likely the nominal 
heads of the 'Gang' at Hogwarts and who 'brought' in the others.  

Cheers, Mandy