[HPforGrownups] The gap in the Weasley family

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 1688

It's possible that there WERE children born in the gap between Charlie and
Percy, but they died young.  It could be something the parent Weasleys
prefer not to discuss because it is too painful.




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From: heidi [mailto:heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 6:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] The gap in the Weasley family





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!


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