“Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in seventh year, and he was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned out to be Death Eaters.”
Sirius held up his fingers and began ticking off names.
“Rosier and Wilkes — they were both killed by Aurors the year before Voldemort fell. The Lestranges — they’re a married couple — they’re in Azkaban. Avery — from what I’ve heard he wormed his way out of trouble by saying he’d been acting under the Imperius Curse — he’s still at large. But as far as I know, Snape was never even accused of being a Death Eater — not that that means much. Plenty of them were never caught. And Snape’s certainly clever and cunning enough to keep himself out of trouble.”
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", Chapter 27 "Padfoot Returns"
we know avery was at hogwarts at the same time as mulciber and snape, alongside wilkes and rosier. lucius and narcissa also overlapped (albeit briefly) with snape’s time at school. however, the same can’t be said for bellatrix - born in ‘51, she’d have left hogwarts long before he set foot in it.
hence my question: how is this portrayed in fanfiction? how do writers attempt to make it work? the quote refers to the lestranges as a married couple—bellatrix and bodolphus. sure, rabastan could’ve been younger and part of the slytherin gang, but that still doesn’t fix the discrepancy.
i know the author wasn’t exactly on speaking terms with basic arithmetic, but i’m more curious about how fanfic writers have handled it. how have you seen people explain this? (i’m a sucker for rules and patterns—neurodivergent curse, i suppose—so i can’t write a word until i’ve sorted this out, haha).
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