[HPforGrownups] Re: the Weasleys

[Hana]

No: HPFGUIDX 42498

Penny said:

>>I also think Ginny's statement makes no sense.  She's 11 when she makes that statement.  At that point, Bill had been gone *at least* 3 years (and that's only if you assume Charlie graduated the year before Harry arrived, which I also think is faulty on a number of levels).  So, if true, then Bill had first come to Hogwarts 10 years before -- i.e., when Ginny was one year old.  She has no memory then.<<

Sometimes people "remember" things from when they were really young because people have told them about them.  I know that I fell off a couch when I was 16 months old and broke my arm.  I don't actually ~remember~ the incident, but it was told to me so many times that I tell it like it was a memory.  If year old Ginny made a fuss and wanted to go with Bill to school, and she was reminded of this often enough she would be able to say she wanted to go since Bill did because she knows she did even if she doesn't really remember it.  Does that make sense?

As for when Charlie and Bill attended Hogwarts, if we assume that the Lexicon is right and Charlie was born in 1967, he started school in 1978 he would have left in 1985 when Ginny was 4.  If Bill is a year older than Charlie (though he could be more than that) then he attended from 1977 - 1984 at which point Ginny would have been 3 and definitely old enough to remember things, even if she didn't remember very much.  

That would put Bill leaving 7 years before Harry starts, and Charlie leaving 6 years before Harry. 


For a completely different Weasley related topic: Does anyone think that Percy is so stuck up for rules and being responsible because he probably had to do a lot of babysitting at a young age?  

He's 2 years older than the twins, 4 years older than Ron and 5 years older than Ginny.  By the time Ron and Ginny were 5 and 4 respectively he would have been 9 and probably told to mind his brother and sister while Molly tried to deal with the twins (who are hard enough to handle as teens let alone as children ;))  Bill and Charlie would only have been helpful during holidays when they weren't at school, and then they would have their own jobs and would not have been around.  Arthur seems to spend a lot of time at work, so Molly would be stuck at home with 5 children under the age of 10!

Opinions?

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