Hermione's Age and Time Turner - Twins - Gay Characters

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 27177

Mirzam Black wrote:

> Let's imagine, that her days are like 6
> hours longer than normal day.. In my 
> opinion, Hermione is actually very much
> older than she should be..

This has already resulted in a long thread, but I just wanted to say 
that I had had the same thought while first reading PoA, until I got 
to the part where she discloses the whole secret, and it turned out 
that she only had TWO extra hours per day, not six as I had thought 
-- no wonder the poor kid is exhausted, she doesn't create any extra 
time for sleeping or even for doing the extra homework!

s_luhtanen wrote:

> That explains how she was having breasts as early as 14 I think...

People have already explained that 14 isn't early, 13 isn't early. In 
addition, if you're refering to the Yule Ball in GoF, she was 
FIFTEEN, having been 14 at the start of term but turned 15 on her 
birthday September 19.

Laura Hickman wrote:

> wouldn't that mean that both Lily
> and Petunia both would have magical
> powers, if identical but if they were
> feturnal (i know i spelled that one wrong)
> twins then maybe one of them could be
> magical and maybe one without magic.

Somewhere we were told that Parvati and Padma Patil are identical 
twins, but we know that Lily and Petunia, if twins, are fraternal 
because they look different: not just red hair versus blond hair, but 
Petunia doesn't have green eyes.

Deeblite wrote:

> I somehow don't think that [making a character gay] would even occur 
to her.

It would occur to her if she was basing a character on a real person 
and that real person was known to her to be gay.