[HPforGrownups] Re: Missing Weasley Children - Names

[GulPlum]

No: HPFGUIDX 45534

At 16:04 18/10/02 +0000, iwishiwerehermione wrote:

>I'm new to HP4GU, can someone point me to the cannon that proves
>Charlie is so much older than Percy? In the Chamber of Secrets (which
>I'm reading again in preparation for the movie release), when Harry
>rescues Ginny, she goes on and on about how she will be expelled from
>Hogwarts and how she has been looking forward to being a Hogwart's
>student since Bill was accepted. (I'm at work without my copy of the
>book, sorry for the lack of direct quote).

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The above statement appears to be inconsistent with the laregely accepted 
chronology which Michelle has since presented in a neat summary.

However, this is one of those occasions where the exact quote may be 
helpful. Ginny's words were "ever since Bill came". This doesn't 
*necessarily* mean "ever since Bill FIRST came", and could be construed 
perfectly reasonably to mean "since Bill was here". Canon indicates a gap 
between Charlie's finishing and Percy's starting at Hogwarts, and Ginny 
could remember a time when she'd be seeing her oldest brother off at the 
start of the school year and welcoming him back home, and hearing the 
stories he had to tell.

Some of her earliest memories would be connected with that, although I 
agree her phrasing is a little weird: as the chronology would have it, it 
is unlikely that she could remember a time when Bill was the only Weasley 
to Hogwarts, so if she'd said  "when Bill and Charlie were here", there 
would have been no confusion. However, considering she's just been through 
a traumatic experience, it's not impossible that this is what she actually 
meant.

--
GulPlum AKA Richard, who hopes he's got his canon chronology right...