[HPforGrownups] That's an interesting theory

[Jenett]

No: HPFGUIDX 37443

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Lucy Austin wrote:
> At the risk of reopening the age debate, I must say I still think it
> extremely unlikely that anyone is younger than Harry in his year. As a
> July 21st birthday, I was ALWAYS the youngest in my year, and someone
> with a July 31st birthday would almost certainly find that he was also
> the youngest. I think Ron is several months older, not younger.

Mileage varies on this one: My birthday is September 22nd, and I was in a 
school district with an October cut-off more or less. I was *always* the 
youngest in my class, but even in my quite-small elementary classes (17 or 
18 kids for most of my elementary school years) there were usually at 
least a couple of people with birthdays in August and September. 

One thing to note is that in a school where you have summers off, you 
might not actually *notice* when someone's birthday is if it's not in the 
school year - I know it annoyed my much older sister (whose birthday was 
in July) that she could never have a party with her friends, because my 
parents had a small summer cottage they went to about a thousand miles 
away from where we lived. 

And I know my own birthday often got ignored - even in classrooms with
"It's X's birthday" sorts of things and events, those things usually
weren't organised in time for my birthday if they happened at all, and so
classmates who weren't invited to a party (I know a couple of years, I had
very small parties and invited other people than classmates)  might not
have known.

-Jenett