Tonks's age: A possible solution RE: [the_old_crowd] Re: Snape the Half-Blood Prince WAS RE: Page-filler Lupin

[Amanda]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" 
<erebstock at c...> wrote:
>
> Amanda:
> > Of course that doesn't help your theory that Snape was closely 
tied
> > with Bellatrix if they were 6 years apart but it's not outside 
the
> > realm of possibility.
> 
> Except it sort of is. Given that Sirius identified them as closely 
tied
> at school. My head is aching.
> 
> Eileen
>

I don't know!! ;-) Perhaps Snape was Bella's pet in school?

Can we trust anything that comes form Sirius though?  He spent 15 
years in Azkaban and in my experience men don't generally remember 
date details that specifically anyway. (No offence boys.)  Why would 
he remember how old he was when he last saw a cousin he despised?