Hermione's age

[Barb]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., nlpnt at y... wrote:
 
> Here's a proof you'll like;
> 
> -Term begins September 1st (given)
> -Hermione's birthday is Sep. 19 (interview with JKR)
> -Therefore, Hermione started Hogwarts either just before her 
> eleventh birthday, or just before her twelfth.
> 
> -PS/SS begins in 1991 (inferred from data in CoS)
> -PS/SS begins in 1996 (inferred from copyright date)
> -PS/SS begins in 2000 (as depicted in movie)
> 
> -Therefore, Hermione Granger was born in 1979, 1980, 1985, 1986, 
> 1989 *and* 1990.
>  She can do it, she'd magic enough! :)

I was just reading PoA to my son last night, and I found where Harry 
and Hermione are arguing Sirius' innocence to Dumbledore, who says 
something to the effect of, "No one will believe a pair of thirteen-
year-old wizards."  Not "a thirteen-year-old wizard and a fourteen-
year-old witch."  And even if you argued that Dumbledore might not be 
up on all of the minutia of when all of the students' birthdays are, 
Hermione IS exactly the sort of person who would correct him with a 
statement like, "I am a FOURTEEN-year-old witch, I'll have you 
know."  (After all, she was already arguing with the headmaster; a 
little snittiness wouldn't be beyond her at this point. And she's 
upset and sleep-deprived.)  But this doesn't happen.

Q.E.D.: Hermione Granger was born in September of 1980.  It says so 
in canon.

--Barb
(wondering if this will change to January of 1978 or something once 
some scriptwriter gets his/her hands on PoA...)