Ginny inconsistancy?

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 28091

Aurora wrote: 

> > Hi I am new so this may have been covered before, but it 
> > wasn't in the FAQ. At the end of Chamber of Secerets, Ginny is 
upset 
> > because she thiks she will be expelled from Hogwarts and says 
> > she's been wanting to go ever since Bill started. 
> 
Heidi wrote:

> I don't know which edition you have, but in the US edition, it 
says, "since
> Bill went", which could mean when he went as a seventh year, at 
which time
> she could've been 2 or 3 - certainly old enough to realize that her 
big
> brothers weren't around much.  So it might be a FLINT 
(inconsistency (as
> defined in the VFAQ)) but it also might not be.


This is a close one, but I'd lean toward FLINT.  Ginny was born in 
1981.  If Charlie starts Hogwarts at age 11 in 1978 (according to 
Lexicon timeline), then he was born in 1966.  That means Bill was 
born in 1965 or earlier, making him at least 16 years older than 
Ginny.  If Bill left Hogwarts at age 18, then Ginny was 2 during his 
seventh year.  So if she's claiming to remember something that 
happened when she was two . . . well, it starts to look like a FLINT.

Someone should check my math, but I think Aurora just stormed onto 
the scene with a true FLINT.  

In looking up the dates on the Lexicon, I noticed that there is an 8-
year age difference between Percy and Charlie, with all other known 
age differences in the Weasley family at 1-2 years (except for Bill, 
for whom we don't have a birth year yet).  So what happened in that 8-
year span that caused Molly and Arthur take a break from having 
children?  Or did they have other children in that period (during 
Voldemort's first reign, BTW) who did not survive?

Cindy