Weasley Ages - Quiditch Questions - End of Term

[Jason Bailey]

No: HPFGUIDX 29599

Hello dkgrubb,

Wednesday, November 21, 2001, 7:14:55 PM, you wrote:

den> Jason Bailey wrote:
Actually I quoted this. My reply was not included in your
snippet...don't remember who actually said it now.
den>  In CoS, Ginny Weasley gets taken to the chamber of secrets. And after
den> Harry does his thing and wakes her up she gets into a fit and says " 
den>  I've been waiting to go to Hogwarts ever since Bill came!" Isn't Bill 
den> Weasley almost 30? At least 26 I know. Well Ginny is 11. Does that 
den> work out?

den> What an excellent opportunity to recommend the source of all Potter 
den> knowledge, the lexicon of our very own lexicon Steve:
   While I agree this is an excellent source for information I could
find no information that would be helpful. The closest thing I could
find was:
   Why isn't Bill Weasley listed on the Time Lines?
   We just don't have enough information to place Bill on the Time
   Line yet. We've narrowed it down to Bill being in his late twenties
   during GF, but that's not precise enough. We'll see if we get more
   information in book five.
(http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/hp-faq.html#Bill)

den> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon

den> wherein lies a very long and intelligent discussion of the relative 
den> ages of the Weasleys. I personally feel very strongly that Charlie 
den> graduated from Hogwarts in 1990, Bill in 1989, and Charlie did not play 
den> Quidditch for his last few years, but I have been unable to supply 
den> sufficient canon for this opinion and thus defer to the expert.
While I agree with you on the dates for them attending school, I must
respectfully say that don't know where you find any evidence that
Charlie didn't play his last few years. On the contrary, I believe the
statement that he could have played for England suggests that he
played up to his final year. I think my earlier argument that he was a
great seeker and kept the team in the running for the QC, but they
were a few points shy of winning the cup.

Now what I want to know is why Gryffindor was forced to play against
Ravenclaw while their seeker was in a coma in the hospital wing
(PS/SS), while Slytherin is able to postpone games when their seeker
gets a scrape on his arm? It would seem to me under the circumstances
that Gryfindor should have been able to forfeit the game if not
postpone it a week, rather than suffer their worst defeat in 100 years
(or whatever it was).

What exactly do the students do the last week of term? They've already
had final exams, yet they attend classes. Is this normal in Briton?