Ages in the books,...

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 21437

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., claudiambr2001 at y... wrote:
> We know that :
> 
> McGonagall is around 70
> Dumbledore is around 150
> Snape is 36
> Percy is 19
> But what are Bill and Charlies ages or off the other characters 
execpt
> (s/p?) hagrid and those still in Hogwarts...
> 
> Does anyone knows their age????
> 
> ClaudiaMBR

Rowling has never come straight out and written exactly how old Bill 
and Charlie are. I figure Bill is at least one or two years older than 
Charlie. Charlie can be anywhere from 6 years older than Percy to a 
mere 4 years older than Percy. The 6 year gap comes from the date of 
the last time the Gryffindor Quidditch Team won the Quidditch Cup (7 
years before CoS). Charlie was Captain of that team. IF Charlie won 
that cup in his seventh year, that would make him about 6 years older 
than Percy. However, I have a feeling Charlie didn't play Quidditch in 
his final year or two or three of Hogwarts and spent that time gearing 
up for his dragon studies; therefore, Oliver Wood's disgust at Charlie 
running off to chase dragons rather than playing Quidditch for 
England. (IIRC, in PS/SS, Ron states that Charlie is *studying* 
dragons in Romania, implying to me, that Charlie is in some kind 
of post-Hogwarts study program similar to graduate school in the 
US.) That would close the age gap between Charlie and Percy to 
anywhere between 3-5 years and that would also close the age gap 
between Bill and Percy. 

I think most people here agreed that Bill and Charlie are more or less 
in their mid-20s.

Steve's web site the HP Lexicon has a listing of the students and 
their respective years. The link is on this list's home page.

Milz