Hermione's age (was A Mistake and a Question)

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 23391

Ebony quoted:
> "'It is your turn to listen, and I beg you not to interrupt me, 
> because there is very little time', he said quietly. 'There is not 
a 
> shred of proof to support Black's story, except your word--and the 
> words of two THIRTEEN YEAR OLD wizards will not convince anybody."
> --Dumbledore, PoA
> Chapter 21, "Hermione's Secret"
> p. 287 (British paperback edition)
> 
> See, I *knew* I wasn't crazy!
> 
> So if the end of PoA is in late spring...
> 
> ...Hermione was born in 1980.
> 
> --Ebony (who feels sure there's something else in canon to this 
> effect too)

Now this is ironic - this whole thread started (message #23257) with 
this passage, on the grounds that it must be a Flint!

David,  vanishing up his own orifice