Hermione's age

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 20723

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dfrankis at d... wrote:
> --- 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.

Maybe this is the reason why Hermione studies so hard. She's 
technically a year behind everyone else; therefore, she studies to 
compensate for that deficiency.

Milz