Hermione's birthday

[Ali <Ali@zymurgy.org>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48191

 "Heidi Tandy" wrote:

>>> Without anything other than Angelina and Hermione's birthdays to 
base this on, I could argue that Hogwarts, predating the modern 
British school system by a few hundred years as it does, uses the 
Fall Equinox in late September as its cutoff date. It would enable 
Angelina to be 17 at that point in her 6th year - and cedric as well -
 while placing Hermione's birthday 6 weeks after Harry's<<<  

I like this suggestion, but why would they follow the Autumn <vbg> 
Equninox though? The school holidays, basic ages of the kids and exam 
system even, follow the English/Welsh school system. Whilst your 
suggestion fits the facts and would dig JKR out of a hole if she had 
to explain it; it doesn't seem to fit well with everything else we 
know about the school system.

I personally still believe that Hermione is a year older than Harry, 
and the sentence about 2 "13 year old wizards" is a FLINT. I wonder 
if JKR would ever admit to this though!

Ali