Hermione's age

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 20976

Steve Vander Ark wrote:

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. 

I agree with Steve and think that Hermione is one of the younger kids 
in her year.  I base this solely on the fact that my own birthday is 
September 18th and I was always a bit younger than the rest of the 
kids in my class.  Since this is the wizarding world we are 
speculating about, who's to say that Muggle age cutoff dates are used 
at all?  My pet theory is that every child who turns 11 in that year 
(ie 1991) goes on to Hogwarts even if his or her birthday is in 
November.  Meaning, of course, that there may be a few 10 year olds 
at school in the first half of the school year.  Dumbledore also 
alludes to the fact that Hermione is the same age as Harry and Ron in 
PoA: "--and the word of two thirteen year old wizards will not 
convince anybody." (PoA Chapter 21, p. 392, US ed) 

That's my position and I'm sticking to it...

Trina