[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione's age

[devika261 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20753

In a message dated 6/13/01 10:43:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dfrankis at dial.pipex.com writes:


> 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.
> 

The system works in strange ways.  My birthday is on November 14, and I was 
always in a class with some people who were around my age and some who were 
nearly a year older than I was.  I graduated from high school at 17 (I 
started kindergarten when I was 4).  Actually, I had a friend who was one 
grade lower than I was but a couple of months older.  It all depended on 
whether the parents of the child wanted him or her to start school "early."  
I doubt that the parents have much say in the timing of Hogwarts admission, 
but Hermione is certainly bright enough to start at a slightly younger age, 
which, IMO, doesn't matter much anyway.
Devika


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