Tonks's age: A possible solution RE: [the_old_crowd] Re: 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:
>
> 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.


Pippin:
Sirius didn't say closely tied, just part of a gang. If the gang was  Bella's,
it could have fallen apart after she left school, even if many of  the individual
members were still around. Snape was a weird little oddball, like Luna,
and probably even worse at making friends.


Since Andromeda married a Muggle, it's not beyond possibility that she
dropped out of Hogwarts when she got married  and finished her education 
in the Muggle world. Ted might not have had any idea of what she was
or her even her real age when he married her.

Pippin