Snape the Half-Blood Prince WAS RE: Page-filler Lupin

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" <erebstock at c...> wrote:
>
> Alec:
> >"The trouble is that HBP contradicts that directly. We have 
> Dumbledore's own assurance that Bellatrix was the "eldest" - which 
> means she was older even than Andromeda, and (by implication) means 
> that the names of the sisters on the family tree begin with the 
> oldest on the left, and the youngest on the right - which makes 
> sense, I suppose."

Eileen:
> Particularly the bit about Andromeda's teenage pregnancy. Yep. That was
> really inspiring. 
> 
> I don't really care if the timelines only work out if they have
> Andromeda running off in her teens with Ted Tonks and marrying early. It
> doesn't faze me with my historical acceptance of early marriage. But did
> JKR intend that? I just can't see it.
> 

Pippin:
Molly mentions that lots of people are rushing into marriage just like
last time Voldemort was in power. So whether JKR specifically realized
she had Andromeda and Ted marry quite young or not, she knows it's a 
feature of her world. RL teen marriages where the partners are eighteen,
and not poor or pregnant succeed as often as other marriages, so what's
the fuss? She does show us that Merope's teen marriage, based on
infatuation and coercion, collapsed very quickly.

And, um, JKR might be traditional enough to think it's better to marry
than to burn.

In regards to Sirius not mentioning Narcissa, he was talking about the
members of  the gang who became Death Eaters. Since AFAWK
Narcissa had never been accused, he wouldn't have mentioned her.

Pippin