[HPforGrownups] Schooldays

[The Fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 55543

From: JessaDrow at aol.com

>But Harry, Ron and Draco all being the same age and all, what are the odds 
>that Arthur, Lucius and James all went to school together? I realize that 
>Ron is the second youngest, which would probably mean that Arthur is 
>somewhat older than Lucius and James, but it still makes for some 
>interesting thoughts.

Odds that Arthur was at school with James:  nil.  Ron is, as you point out, 
the second-youngest of Arthur's children.  Charlie, the second-eldest, is 
eleven (or possibly twelve) years older than Ron, and Bill, the eldest, is 
at least a year older than Charlie.  By my calculations, Bill is ... where 
did I have this scribbled down ... between thirteen and fifteen years older 
than Ron.  (He can't be any older than this, because Ginny can remember Bill 
being at Hogwarts, so he must have been there when she was old enough to 
remember, say not younger than two, and if he left when he was eighteen, and 
Ron's a year older than Ginny, Ron would have been about three at the time.) 
  Now, James and Lily were young-ish parents, probably not much older than 
twenty when Harry was born (though there's no hard canon on this yet, I 
believe).  In short, *Bill* Weasley may well have been at school with James 
Potter (though not in the same year, as the math doesn't work out, and 
besides both were Head Boy), but not Arthur.

Odds that Lucius was at school with James:  decent.  Assuming Lucius and 
Narcissa were married and had Draco with the same speed that James and Lily 
were married and had Harry, it could easily work out that Lucius and James 
were classmates.

Odds that Lucius was at school with Arthur:  better, IMO.  (Obviously he 
can't have been at school with both of them.  [g])  In the first place, the 
animosity between Lucius and Arthur is visible to the Muggle eye.  (Granted, 
if Lucius feels animosity toward James, it's not like James can respond in 
kind.  But still.)  And in the second place, I'm firmly of the belief that 
Draco is not the Malfoys' first child.  He has all the earmarks of being the 
youngest, and by a long way -- combine an only child with the baby of a 
family, take away all the good and pleasant features of both, and you're 
left with Draco Malfoy.

Fox

...
Come on, Nature
Just because I don't feel weak
Don't mean I feel so strong.
-- the Proclaimers
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