[HPforGrownups] Re: If I were invited to HWarts when would my letter arrive?

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 20933

> 
> Real-To:  "Rachel Adams" <athena.arena at virgin.net>
> 
> Hey everybody,
> 
> > Would it have come on my 11th birthday (the 16th of 
> October) and then
> > I would wait until September the next year before I went to 
> Hogwarts.
> > Or would the letter arrive in the summer just before 
> September. Please
> > tell me what you think, this one kept me up last night
> 
> I think actually it would arrive in the July AFTER your 
> eleventh birthday. I
> have a theory that Hogwarts does in fact mirror a lot of 
> things in British
> muggle education. 

Also, Harry wasn't supposed to get his letter *on* his eleventh birthday. If
he'd gotten the first one they sent, he would've had it a few days before he
turned eleven.