Charlie's Age

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1726

Hi:

milz wrote:

> Is it possible for Charlie to lead the Quidditch Team to victory one
> year and not the rest? Yes! <snip> So when the Twins, Katie, and
> Angelina graduate and are replaced by players who aren't as good, it's
> quite possible that Harry won't be able to carry the team. Maybe the
> same thing happened to Charlie. OR maybe Charlie was injured and
> couldn't play
> Quidditch anymore. That would make sense because he could have had a
> promising professional career, but instead he's studying dragons in
> Romania. Another thing is that we don't know what year Charlie was
> when he won the Quidditch House Cup (the books only say it was 7
> years ago when Charlie was the Seeker)
he could have won it
> anywhere from his second year to his seventh year. All we know is that
> he won it seven years before Book 3 happened.

I agree that injuries or a bad lineup of other players could cause
Charlie some problems.  But, my point is that he wouldn't have had *any*
promise of a professional Quidditch career if he'd only helped his team
win the Quidditch Cup in his 2nd year.  IMO.  I just have a very hard
time imagining that professional Quidditch scouts would have looked at
Charlie and said "Oh Yeah, he's good enough for the national team -- he
won one season five years ago."

I think it's strongly implied that Gryffindo *at least* won the
Quidditch Cup in Charlie's last year (and probably several other years
in there too, maybe all of them from his 2nd to 7th year for all we
know).  "We haven't won the Quidditch Cup *since* Charlie left."  If it
wasn't his final year, wouldn't they have said something more like,
Gryffindor hasn't won since Charlie Weasley had such a good team and was
Seeker in his 2nd year.  In fact, a long-running successful amateur
career seems to me to be minimally required for someone to be considered
for a national team.  He just seems to be touted as an outstanding
Quidditch player -- Oliver Wood says Harry *might* turn out to be better
than Charlie.  Oliver also says that Charlie could have played for
England *if* he hadn't gone off chasing dragons.  That pretty strongly
says that it was Charlie's choice to forgo a professional Quidditch
career to go study dragons (rather than being forced to accept something
lesser because injuries had prevented him from a Quidditch career).

In any case, with all the other evidence, I still think Charlie left
Hogwarts sometime in the mid to late 1980s and is about 24-25 in GoF.

> If Charlie won it in his 7th year, then Percy would have been starting
> Hogwarts at that time. So Percy is about seven years younger than
> Charlie IF Charlie won the House Cup in his seventh year.

Yep.  That's about right --- Charlie is 24/25 in GoF and Percy is 18.

> Another thing...Ron and Ginny are one year apart age-wise...who's to
> say that Bill and Charlie aren't either?

That's actually exactly what I think, but I thought you were the one
making the argument yesterday that Charlie had to be at least 2 years
younger than Bill.  Maybe that was someone else.  I think it's pretty
likely that Bill & Charlie are somewhere between 1-2 yrs apart.  I think
Bill is 26/27, Charlie is 24/25 and Percy is 18  (GoF ages).

Look at all this discussion for you Simon!  :--)

Penny



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