Snape's Age RE: Tonks's age: A possible solution

[pippin_999]

Anne:
> Thanks -- you can bind my wounds then, because as you see, Steve has
> shot me down!
> 
> UNLESS -- *puts on Gilbert Gottfried voice* -- JKR uses the Lexicon
> ALL the TIME, right? Right? So at some point later on, she used
> Snape's too-young age from the chat, which she found in the Lexicon,
> to determine what Sirius's age would have been when she sent him to
> Azkaban! Yes! The whole thing is a circular chain of cause and effect!  
> 

Pippin:
I dunno. It seems clear to me that JKR wants Snape to be considerably
younger than Lucius (hence the lapdog comment) and she wants Sirius
to be a very young man when he's sent to Azkaban. But probably JKR
isn't too concerned with whether her characters knew each other at
Hogwarts, but only with whether they're of an age to have personal
memories of Lily and James or not. 

Sorry about the Ted Tonks muggle confusion. I don't have OOP 
here, and I was remembering a theory that the newscaster Ted in
PS/SS was Nymphadora's father. My bad.

I can see Lucius, who always wants the best for himself, delaying 
marriage while the lovely and promising Black sisters  grow up.
Bella would be a bit much for him, and anyway she seems to have
set her sights on Lestrange. But what if  Andromeda married in 
haste to avoid being given to him?

Pippin