Hermione's/Harry's birthday - the break off point for Hogwarts

[Joanne0012 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 29860

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Heather Moore" <heathernmoore at y...> wrote:
 > I'll also take a second to point out that cutoff dates in America are set by 
>the individual states. We have similar dates across the board, but not 
>necessarily identical ones. 

In Massachusetts, it's even more anarchic than that:  Individual towns set 
their own dates.  We recently moved from a city with a Sept. 1 cutoff to a 
town with a Dec.  cutoff.  My kids, with birthdays in Oct. and Dec., are now the 
oldest in their classes (except for the kids who repeated).  

With the wizard world having such anarchic tendencies, and having separated 
from muggles before this whole compulsory education thing came about, they 
might not follow any pattern we'd recognize.