Hermione's age

[lady.nymphaea at faerielands.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Barb" <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> 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.

I definitely agree with that, and I'm surprised she wasn't a bit more 
argumentative in the Shack, but Oh Well.

> Q.E.D.: Hermione Granger was born in September of 1980.  It says so 
> in canon.
 
The only place it really matters, honestly, is in fanfic. I'm a 
Hermione-is-older-than-Harry backer, just because I don't think JKR 
is that good with the numbers thing, but I don't really care unless 
I'm trying to write fic.

Then again, I also agree with 1985 as being birth year for Harry and 
Ron (in other words, the "commonly accepted" timeline is off, and 
that PS/SS takes place during 1996-97) because of that silly 
Playstation reference, and that Rowling's birth year is 1965, making 
her the same age as the James gang ^_^(well, I'm sick of calling them 
the Marauders.)

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

Considering how much I identify with Hermione, putting her birth 
month and year the same as mine would be quite interesting.

Meril
who's hoping that Snape's official birthday isn't January 9th...that 
would be too creepy