[HPforGrownups] The gap in the Weasley family

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 1681



Heather Edmonds wrote:

> I have worked on
> creating a timeline using the books, Steve Bates lexicon etc for the Weasley
> family. According to my amateur calculations based on Charlie Weasley being
> 18 when he left school and that being the year Gryffyndor won the Quidditch
> Championship.IIRC (I've lent my copy - stupid) it says in HP & PS circa 1991
> it has been seven years since Gryffyndor has won. Therefore Charlie Weasley
> must have been born in 1966, with Bill sometime previously. The next Weasley
> is Percy who if he left Hogwarts at 18 in PoA 1994 must have been born 1976.

I'm no help on answering the question, but it does give me an opening for a
pondering of my own.
Assuming that the Marauders generation (James, Lily, Sirius, Lupin, Wormtail,
etc.) would be, during the time frame of the books (those alive, at least)
somewhere in their 30's, why didn't Bill (who was probably born somewhere in
1965/64ish) say something in Book 4 like "I was a first year when your dad (or
mum) was head boy (or girl)" - I mean, look at the math - and make a few
assumptions. Assuming Bill is 3 grades ahead of Charlie, if Sirius & Lupin were
anything below 35 or so in 1994 (when book 4 took place) (which would mean that
James (and possibly lily as well) were 20 when Harry was born, and 2 years out
of school) AND assuming that Bill started at Hogwarts at 11 (the normal time to
do so) then Bill would've been a very young student when the Marauders were
6/7th years.
IMHO, this is pretty good evidence that James & Lily were a little older than
"just out of school" when Harry was born, and that Remus & Sirius are more
likely in their late 30's or even early 40s.
Or I made a subtraction error, which is entirely possible!