Weasley ages...

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 47708

--- Sherry Garfio <sgarfio at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The one point in Scheherezade's original post that has not been
addressed yet is that Bill mentioned not having seen Hogwarts for 5 years
("The Third Task", p. 535 UK PB: "'It's great being  back here,' said
Bill, looking around the chamber... 'Haven't seen this place for five
years.  Is that picture of the mad knight still around?  Sir Cadogan?'") 
This is toward the end of the 1994-95 school year (June 24, 1995, to be
exact), so assuming Bill is being exact here, he last saw Hogwarts in
1990.  This is where I also said "Huh?" because he couldn't have been a
student there 5 years ago if he's the oldest and Percy has already
graduated, unless the older Weasley kids are much closer together than we
think, and maybe Charlie stopped playing Quidditch before he graduated and
therefore graduated less than 7 years before Ron started (okay, now I'm
just confusing myself <G>).<<

This didn't confuse me at all, because after all, Bill was THERE without
being a student THEN, so why couldn't he have visited before?  We see in
TMTMNBN that former students/relatives of students can come to Quidditch
matches.  Bill might've come for some kind of reunion, an Old Head Boys
Conference, or just to visit his siblings.  I never saw why this should
indicate Bill had to have been a student at Hogwarts then.



Andrea

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