Hermione's birthday

[mariakittens <mariakittens@yahoo.co.uk>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48124

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, patchespup100 at a... wrote:
> Is there anybody from the UK out there that can tell us how things 
operate 
> there.  If not I might be able to find out from a friend I have in 
England.




I've just read this debate from the FAQs page and although its been 
hammered I still find it really interesting.

My opinion is that the Hogwarts age timetable runs the same as the 
English one. So term starts beg of Sept and you have to be 11 to 
start the school, just as you do with normal muggle secondary 
schools.  Therefore Hermione would have been 12 on 19th Sept and 
would have been one of the oldest first year students. Harry is one 
of the youngest. This has almost happened in my own life as I started 
school at 11yrs in sept '91 and turned 12yrs in oct '91, however my 
friends b-day was end of july or in august (it was somewhere amongst 
the leo astro dates) so she didn't turn 12yrs until 1992, but we were 
still in the same class/year at school.  This also ties in with 
Dudley going to his secondary school the same time as Harry and the 6 
week holidays happening at the same time.  I imagine Hogwarts keep to 
the muggle timetable so that their students don't stick out like a 
sore thumb by having totally different start dates to the rest of us. 
Students would be suddenly disappearing out of schools half way 
through their first muggle term all over the place otherwise!

Maria