[the_old_crowd] Re: Snape's Age RE: Tonks's age: A possible solution

[Eileen Rebstock]

Heidi:
> And my take on this is actually somewhat the opposite. Since OotP,
I've
> thought that Sirius was to marry Narcissa, and when he fled the
family*,
> that smart-but-not-wealthy pureblood Lucius Malfoy got lucky enough to
> marry into the wealthy Black family as he was the Most Promising
> Option.

That's a theory I can get on board with. A lot of people seem to have
dropped Sirius/Narcissa since OotP when it was so popular beforehand,
but I signed on to that ship with OotP. I think the family connection
only makes the ship more likely.

> And yes, I've factored in the mention of the Wiltshire house -
> it might've been a wedding present from Narcissa's family, to set her
up
> in the style to which she's accustomed.


One theory I've seen floated around so much I can't recall who came up
with it is that Bella is actually the owner of the Wiltshire manor
originally, and Narcissa got it after Bellatrix was sent to Azkaban. I
like this theory because it fits with my longstanding feeling that it
was Lucius who tipped Crouch off about the identity of the Longbottoms'
torturers to save his own neck. And also to get the manor. 

Eileen