[HPforGrownups] Re: A Mistake and a Question

[Sarah Rose]

No: HPFGUIDX 23289


--- Steve Vander Ark <vderark at bccs.org> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., caliburncy at y... wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., jonathandupont at h...
> wrote:
> > > The mistake - 
> > > In POA21 "Hermione's Secret" Dumbledore calls
> H&H "two 
> > thirteen-year-
> > > old wizards". Surely Dumbledore is wrong -
> Hermione is 14.
> > 
> > No, I believe he is correct.  As stated by JKR,
> Hermione's birthday 
> is 
> > September 19th.  She is younger than Harry, not
> older (born later 
> the 
> > same year, not earlier the previous
> 
> This is the position I have taken as well, but a few
> recent posts 
> have suggested that in Britain it may not be
> possible the way it is 
> in the States. Here, if you think your child is
> ready for it, you can 
> send them to kindergarten even if they're four,
> unless their birthday 
> is in Novebember or December or later. This makes it
> easily possible 
> that Hermione, being as she is mentally advanced for
> her age, could 
> certainly have started Hogwarts while still at age
> 10, especially 
> since her birthday is so close to the September 1
> start date. 

I was always under the assumption that Hermione was
older than Harry.  I remember a AOL chat in which JKR
said Hermione was born September 19, 1979.  And it's
possible for her to be almost a whole year older than
Harry.  That's how it is with the majority of my
friends.  I'll be 15 on august first and like 85% of
my friends will all be turning 16 in
September-November.  

Well, that's my two knuts, sorry for lack of other
things in here, I don't have anything else to reply
to.  Sorry!

Sarah

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