The Hogwarts Arms (not a pub) - Timeline - Molly's Age

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 21369

Danette wrote:

> Does anyone know where tuo find a picture of the
> *color* version of the coat of arms on the Web? 

http://www.sylvanlaneshoppe.com/xpress_611288.jpg
is a good-sized picture of a WB licensed mug with a picture of the arms
on one side.

Susanna Pigwidgeon wrote:

> How did you get those time lines? I agree with you
> that it's much more sensible to reconstruct relative 
> time-lines without exact dates, but did you take into 
> consideration that,if yours was correct, Mrs. Weasley
> in GoF would have arrived at the venerable age of 
> about 58? She certainly strikes me more as an about 
> 45 year-old.

I constructed my time line from clues in the books, starting with CoS is
in the 1992-93 school year because of the Deathday Party. I just posted
it in my folder at HPff:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/files/Catlady%27s%20Stories/

In a Scholastic on-line chat that was part of the PR campaign for the
release of GoF, JKR said that wizards live longer than Muggles,
Dumbledore is 150 and McGonagall "is a sprightly 70". Even if those were
their ages in 2000 when she answered the question rather than in 1994-5
when GoF took place, that means that Dumbledore was almost 100 in the
Tom Riddle flashbacks in CoS, even tho' his hair was still "auburn". I
take this to mean that wizards not only live longer, but age slower. I
think Molly could be the same age as McGonagall. Aging slower would
allow childbearing to continue to a later age than us Muggles. 

When Molly and Bill turned up as Harry's family for the Third Task,
Molly reminisced about her student days, telling some anecdotes about
the gamekeeper before Hagrid, a man named Ogg. Readers immediately
assumed that either that was a JKR error, or Hagrid had worked as Ogg's
assistant for some number of years, because if Hagrid became gamekeeper
'50 years ago' (at age 13) when he was expelled, Molly couldn't be old
enough to have been in school before 50 years ago and also be young
enough to have a child of 13 (Ginny). But the info that the wizarding
folk live longer and age slower made me think that Molly COULD be old
enough to have been an older classmate of Hagrid. 




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