Hermione's ages

[jonathandupont at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 28028

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Ebony" <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
> 
> Sure, let's just agree to disagree.  Just like you've read all of 
our 
> points (thanks Barb!!!) and disagree, I've read all of the 1979 
> points over and over again and disagree as well.  Not only that, 
but 
> I feel that the UK school system arguments are simply not valid in 
> every case--this summer I visited 10-12 primary and first schools 
and 
> there were a few exceptions to the rule.  I *asked* those 
> headteachers, and I chatted with the little students.  Perhaps I 
was 
> imagining things, or perhaps Oxfordshire is just a very, very 
strange 
> place.  <g>  Or maybe the rule has only been flexed in the last 
> couple of years... whatever.

Fair enough. 

> Let's make this one of the questions we ask JKR the next 
opportunity 
> we get, okay?
> 
> --Ebony AKA AngieJ (who has three more pro-1980 points she's saving 
> for later)

Right... next time I happen to bump into JKR I'll be sure to ask 
her... Seriously, the next lot of net chats aren't likely to start 
till OoP time, which is who knows when - probably a long wait. 

Jon
(who is also aware of the pro-1980 point that Dumbledore implies that 
she's younger - and is surprised that nobody brought it up again).