That's an interesting theory

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 37455

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lucy Austin" <lucy at l...> 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.

Yes, I already posted saying Ron is five months older (March 1 
birthdate).  However, Hermione is either 40 days younger than Harry 
(if you subscribe to the Hermione-was-born-in-1980-camp) or 325 days 
older.  But what you said is that Harry is probably the youngest in 
the year.  By the law of averages, if there are 8-10 students per 
house in Harry's year with perhaps an average of 9 per house, that 
would make about 36 students in his year.  This would, on average, 
put about 3 birthdays in each month.  And even if it's very lopsided 
and some months have only 1 or 2 while some have 4 or 5, I find it 
hard to believe that absolutely no one in his year was born in 
August.  There has to be at least 1 other person in the year younger 
than he is (if not more).

--Barb