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how to fix harry potter?

I’ve personally assumed Sirius was largely talking out his ass at this point, because the death eater we 100% do know Snape is involved with by Goblet of Fire is Lucius Malfoy and the proto-death eater teenage Snape is accused of being too close with in Deathly Hallows is Mulciber, but Sirius doesn’t mention either of them, even though he runs his mouth calling Snape Malfoy’s lapdog right in the next book and just spent 12 years in the same jail as Mulciber lmao. But, in terms of practical timeline-salvaging?  Since the adult Lestranges took the still-teenage Barty Jr. out torturing with them, it’s plausible that they had a habit of “mentoring” younger death eaters — especially those from good families, like the notably pure-blooded Crouches or, maybe, Bellatrix’s mother’s family, the Rosiers. The Wilkeses didn’t make the Sacred 28 list and Bellatrix is rather fanatical in her blood purity thing, so it’s probably Evan Rosier who has ties to the Lestranges — Sirius seems to be playing six degrees of separation to link Snape to them, but hey, they’re awful people (whom the author needs to mention and set up as such) and if the kids think they were Snape’s old friends they won’t wonder if Sirius is related to them! (Could also be Avery who was Bellatrix’s protégé I guess, but that seems unlikely— the death eater Avery we see doesn’t have anything in common with the Lestranges beyond working for Voldemort. It’s almost certainly not Snape himself — he’s a halfblood whom Bellatrix doesn’t like, trust, or know particularly well and she’s upset that Narcissa seems to like and trust him.)

the gang of slytherins discrepancy :(