Aha! (was The British school system)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., hp_lexicon at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "David" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> > Sharon wrote:
> > 
> > > Pupils in Scotland 
> > > follow a completely different format where the 
> > > school years run from August to July, but the year you are in 
is 
> > determined 
> > > by the year running from January to December. This means that 
> you 
> > can have 
> > > two pupils in one school year in Scotland who would have been 
in 
> > consecutive 
> > > school years in England.
> > 
> > If I understand you correctly, Hermione's eleventh birthday would 
> > under this system fall in her first term at Hogwarts.
> > 
> > Lexicon, Steve?
> 
> If JKR was using the real life model of the school system for 
> Hogwarts, it seems likely that she'd use the one in Scotland, where 
> she lives.

....but she went through the English system herself.



 But we don't know. The only thing that the canon tells us 
> is that Dumbledore refers to Hermione as being 13 toward the end of 
> the 1993-4 school year, which would put her birthday in 1980. 

Of course, PS/SS could've taken place as late as 1996/97 school year  
to have "happened" by the time the book came out (and subsequent 
books have been timed in keeping with this), and the movie PS/SS 
apparently takes place in 2000-01.

 So, depending on the dating theory the reader favors and the cutoff 
date for Hogwarts, Hermione was born in 1979, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1989, 
or 1990. My theory? All of 'em. She's magic enough :)