Hermione's age and the timeturner

frances at forever.u-net.com frances at forever.u-net.com
Thu Oct 4 02:19:23 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 27123

> I remember working this out when I first joined the list, but for the 
> life of me I couldn't find the post when I went digging for it.  She 
> would only be about 51.25 days older, not "much" older.  This is 
> based on her gaining 6 hours per day 5 days a week for 41 weeks.  As 
> to whether she'd be more, erm, "physically" developed being less than 
> two months older...It's highly doubtful that anyone would really 
> notice a difference.
> 
> On the other hand, if she was born in 1980 and not 1979 (the debate 
> rages on...) she would now be older than Harry by 1.25 days.
> 
> --Barb

Of course it could be that because the timeturner is a magical device 
any time 'used' through it is sort of 'out of time' and doesn't 
actually add to a person's age.

Frances
(check out 'Coming of Age' by Frances Potter at schnoogle.com!)






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