Hermione's age

[dfrankis at dial.pipex.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20708

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:

> Harry was born on July 31, 1980. Ron was born on March 1, 1980, so 
> he's five months older than Harry. Hermione was born on September 
> 19th. I believe that she was born in 1980 as well and that she 
turned 
> 11 a couple of weeks after she started at Hogwarts, but others feel 
> that the cutoff is September 1 so she must have been born in 1979. 
> The books don't actually say this, however. There is no indication 
in 
> the canon as to which of these--1979 or 1980--is correct. 
> 
> Steve Vander Ark
> The Harry Potter Lexicon
> which includes all canonical information about the characters
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon

FWIW, if Hermione was born in 1980 she would almost certainly have 
missed her final year at Muggle primary school before attending 
Hogwarts.  For a pupil as bright as her, this may not matter much, 
and the Hogwarts lessons in any case don't tie in to our much-loved 
National Curriculum.

Our son was expected on 3rd Sept, and arrived on 25th August.  As a 
result he went into a different academic year to all the other (Early 
September) babies in our National Childbirth Trust classes.  The 
system isn't enforced particularly - it just happens with a high 
degree of accuracy.

David,

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