BTW what is your timeline, more or less? Are we somewhere in late spring, early summer of 1981?
If you are going to write about the July Order meeting in which the photo was taken, then just for 'color' - my guess is the meeting was the celebration of Dumbles' 100th birthday. The timing is right, there is a mention of raised glasses, and there had to have been something special that day for Aberforth to join them, the only time Moody met him. (Of Course Aberforth is hanging in the back of the photo, far from, but just behind his brother.)
Very early summer of 1981, since we know Albus "borrowed" the Cloak from James by late July. Hmm--he might have asked James to bring it to that very meeting. I forget when Albus's birthday is--I know it's not specified in canon, but Jo's said elsewhere, hasn't she
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About Albus' birthday, we know he was not yet 18 when his mother died, so he must have had a summer birthday. Out of canon Rowling first gave his age as 150, then changed his birth year to 1881 in his Wizard of the Month card (IIRC), I don't think she gave him an exact birthday yet
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Adding to my previous post: If Severus was appointed later than Sep 1st of 1981, it was not because Tom's order came that late but because it took that long for Horace to decide to retire. Maybe there was some event that shook him terribly just then. I'm playing with the idea that a great-(great?)-grandnephew of his turned out to be a DE.
I'm playing, actually, with a different idea. Of course Tom wants to get an agent into Hogwarts. He always does, and more so if he's preparing to make his big push at the end of 1981
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Hmm. Is Severus's failure to get himself hired the first time why Tom apparently recruited Regulus as a student? That he'd given up the idea of being able to insert someone already committed to him?
The timeline doesn't work. Regulus was recruited at 16, sometime in 1977-8, before the prophecy. Even disregarding the BFT dates completely, he died no later than 1980 and thus was recruited no later than 1979. That would be a tight squeeze.
Tom apparently continued the policy of keeping Severus 'clean' from acs that would obviously implicate him as DE even after the prophecy. So I don't think he lost hope of insinuating him at Hogwarts.
And if he was displeased with him, I wonder what it was that Severus had failed to deliver, as Muggle scalps was not on his list.
Snape finished Hogwarts in late June'78. Voldy would not expect him to be able to get the DADA in the upcoming year since Albus convinced Dippet not to hire Tom straight out of school, basically saying - too young, wait a few years. Tom is probably well aware that Albus really meant Dippet shouldn't hire Tom at all, but if the reason given was age, then it is unlikely that anyone is really ever hired straight out of school. Also, Tom has to see how well Snape performs in other ways. After all, I doubt Tom wasted time getting to know recruits before marking them. He could always get rid of them if they didn't work out
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If you are going to write about the July Order meeting in which the photo was taken, then just for 'color' - my guess is the meeting was the celebration of Dumbles' 100th birthday. The timing is right, there is a mention of raised glasses, and there had to have been something special that day for Aberforth to join them, the only time Moody met him. (Of Course Aberforth is hanging in the back of the photo, far from, but just behind his brother.)
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And if he was displeased with him, I wonder what it was that Severus had failed to deliver, as Muggle scalps was not on his list.
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