Charlie and Bill ages

[Simon J. Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 4653

Malabud wrote: "I think the 1990/91 school year was Charlie's seventh year
at Hogwarts, despite the few-babies-born-during-the-Voldemort-years theory.
In my opinion, Gryffindor was missing a seeker Harry's first year because
Charlie had graduated the year before. Remember, Slytherin may have won the
House Cup for six consecutive years, but that doesn't mean they won the
*Quidditch* Cup all those years!"

We are repeatedly told that Charlie is one of the best seekers that has ever
been to Hogwarts. For this to be the case Gryffindor must have won the house
cup most, if not all, the years he played.
I now include a couple of quotes:

"And Potter - do try and win, won't you? Or we'll be out of the running for
the eighth year in a row ..." (McGonagall - PoA Ch 12)
"Gryffindor hadn't won the Quidditch Cup since the legendary Charlie Weasley
had been Seeker."(PS Ch 13)
"If they won their next match, against Hufflepuff, they would overtake
Slytherin in the House Championship for the first time in seven years."(PS
Ch 13)

These imply that Gryffindor has also not won the Quidditch cup for 7 years -
which makes a 5-year gap back to when Charlie was at Gryffindor (I age
people using PS as the basis).
The quotes about the House Cup imply that they last won the House Cup 7
years before the events of PS. Interestingly this could be interpreted to
mean that there is a two-year age gap between Charlie and Bill.

>From this I got Charlie to be 22 at the beginning of PS, which would suggest
he was born in 1968/9. Due to this Bill would have started Hogwarts in, or
before, 1980 - before Ginny was born (Ginny would have been born in 1980/1).

Simon