- Geenrations -Ages

[pbnesbit at msn.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
> 
> Ebony wrote:
> > What do you think?  How do the generations vary as
> > we've seen them in Harry Potter?  Is there any variance,
> > or am I just indulging in another blissful session of reading
> > into canon what many would say isn't there?  ;-)
> > Perhaps the question I should be asking is, "Anyone still 
reading?"
> 
> All I can say is your well-written post is thought-provoking.
> 
> Parker wrote:
> > I grew up in the same years as MWPP/Snape.  In my youth,
> > I watched, horrified, as uniformed policemen sprayed
> > African-Americans (quite a number of them children) with
> > water guns, and set dogs on them.  I remember *exactly*
> > where I was when JFK was assassinated.
> 
> I was born in November 1957, and am convinced that the Marauders 
(and
> Lily, and Snape) were born in the same summer-to-summer year as me. 
And
> I can't believe that Parker is older than me, so I must have been a 
very
> out of it child.  I didn't know about the Civil Rights stuff when 
it was
> happening. I was in first grade when JFK was assassinated (I saw the
> flag at school at half-staff and asked a big knowledgeable sixth 
grader
> why, who told me The President Has Been Assassinated, whereupon I 
asked:
> what is 'assassinated'?). I was 10 when RFK was assassinated -- I 
had
> been stuffing envelopes and ringing doorbells for him (my mother 
was a
> fervent Democrat)...
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I'm only 6 months older than you, Rita (just celebrated my 44th). 

You were *not* out of it.  I had a very strange upbringing--I'm an 
only child, my parents were older when I was adopted, so I grew up 
with adults.  My father, especially, was a news-hound, so I was 
probably exposed to "real-life" events much more than others my age.

As for the Marauders' ages, I can sorta agree with JKR, but they do 
seem older to me for some reason.  Especially Remus.  I get the 
feeling that he may have been a few years older than the rest.  I 
wish she would just give the ages of people!

Peace & Plenty, 

Parker (who also stuffed envelopes and rang doorbells for RFK--my 
parents were Republicans, but I was not)