Hermione's age - why it matters (was Canon disagreement;

[Sherlock (a.k.a Merlyn)]

No: HPFGUIDX 39505

Just to add to this:

I've a friend who's birthday is on the 4th September. Since the school year 
in (my school and surround schools in the Ribble Valley) starts on either 
the 2nd or 3rd of September, that makes my friend a whole school year older 
than the rest of us, starting at age 12. His year of birth is 1985, whereas 
mine and 96% of my year's birth years are 1986.

Hermione will have turned 11 a whole school year EARLIER than Harry, which 
means she starts Hogwarts at the age of 12, making her year of birth 1979 
(if Harry was born in 1980).

On the 1980 being Harry's birth year, I was wondering something. It would 
make more sense that JK Rowling is writing the books so that they happen in 
real time, rather than events that have already happened - or it would make 
more sense for the age group HP is aimed at (9yr olds), just to make the 
books and the world of Harry Potter seem more 'real' to them. I wonder if it 
is possible that the working out of the date from Nearly Headless Nick's 
cake in CoS is just a blooper? 500 just being a handy number or something 
(or a more significant number to celebrate - after all, I think odd numbers 
have some magical significance...). Plus 1492 is supposed to be the year 
Christopher Columbus discovered America (which is a date most people know).

Anyway, just a few comments from me :)

Steph


"The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly 
persistent illusion." Albert Einstein

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