[HPforGrownups] Re: "Missing" Weasley Children

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 37327


--- gideoner4 <gideoner4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Please enlighten me. Where is it mentioned that the
> gap between the 
> two eldest Weasley children and Percy is nine years?
> If not 
> explicitly mentioned in canon, how did people come
> to a conclusion? 
> I think I missed that part. Thank you. :D

You can look at the Timeline at the Harry Potter
Lexicon for date information, or look in the books. I
know the presumption is 9 years - but it could be 8 or
10 just as easily...

The presumption is arrived at this way:
Canon fact: CoS takes place in 1992/1993, if you add
500 (the number of years Sir Nick is celebrating at
his Deathday) to 1492, the year listed on his cake as
when he died.  
Canon fact: PS/SS takes place in 1991/1992 (one year
before CoS).
Canon fact: It was more than 7 years between when
Charlie played Seeker and when Gryffindor won the cup
as a third year (1994, as the cup was won in the
spring). 
Canon fact: Percy is a 5th year in 1991, which means
that he started Hogwarts in 1987.
IF Charlie played Seeker in his 7th year, Charlie
would have been a 7th year in school year 1985-1986,
and would've finished Hogwarts more than a year before
Percy started. 

Given the vagueries of birthdays, presuming everyone
started "on time", they would be somewhere between 
eight and ten years apart. Nine is the reasonable
number. 


heidi
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