Black family tree

[runespoor7]

Did JKR ever get around to reconciling the ages given by the Black family tapestry and Sirius' claim that Snape was part of 'a gang of Slytherins that all became Death Eaters' in OotP, including Bellatrix ('The Lestranges, a married couple', he says

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[rosefyre]

Just read your post, and wanted to point one thing out: the Black sisters could be twins or even triplets. I think you might also be off on Tonks's age: I calculated the latest date she could be born to be summer 1973, which would have her start Hogwarts in 1984, and therefore end in 1991 - right before Harry starts. Assume Andromeda got pregnant nine months earlier, she was pregnant in late 1972. I generally assume that she graduated, ran away, got married, and got pregnant (which would mean her last year at Hogwarts was Sirius's first), but she could conceivably have left school early.

And yeah, for the original poster: the math doesn't make sense. Neither does JKR's math of the Weasley family: Ginny says she's wanted to go to Hogwarts since Bill did. Even if you calculate the minimum time between their ages, Bill started Hogwarts in 1983...when Ginny was two. Right. And that's if you ignore the "we haven't won since Charlie Weasley left" comment and assume he left the year before Harry started.

Ignoring JKR's maths = generally a good idea.

[runespoor7]

About Andromeda, I have a deep affection for fics where she passes her NEWTs while she's pregnant, so it'll be easier to marry Ted if the Black family doesn't try to break their marriage. And they likely wouldn't if she started showing around the same time or even a couple of months after the end of her last year.

Well, to be fair to JKR's maths, Ginny may have been saying that as a phrase, sort of like she'd have said 'I've always wanted to go to Hogwarts'. It's possible she's wanted to go to Hogwarts for as long as she can remember, anyway.

There's no excuse for Charlie.

[magdalaena]

Could You link any good fic with pregnant Andromeda ? I really like this person, but in most fanfics, authors portray her as an little angel (contrary to Bella little devil ). I personally believe that merrying a muggle would be much more rebelios than becoming a DE.