Hermione's Magical Power - Molly and Arthur's age

[Marina]

No: HPFGUIDX 55594

Laura wrote: 
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Just how powerful *is* Hermione?  I know she's an excellent witch, 
but as far as I can tell, there isn't much canon to support that 
she's incredibly magically powerful.  She studies all the time and 
probably knows about 10 times more spells than Harry and Ron put 
together, but does that necessarily mean she's very powerful?
>>

Me:
I think the fact that, like you said before, she knows ten times more spells than Harry and Ron (or any of her classmates, for that matter), AND that she's able to master them without any problems proves just how powerful she is. 

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mmboy (or was it Fox?) wrote:
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I agree with you that Arthur and James couldn't have gone to school 
together.  But, dude -- you like the odds that a 70-year-old Molly
Weasley has a ten-year-old child?  :-)
>>

Me again:

I think the odds that Molly is in her 70s are more than good. In chapter 31 of GoF, not only does Molly say that the Whomping Willow was planted after she left school, she also "reminisced at lenght about the gamekeeper before Hagrid, a man called Ogg". 

We know Hagrid was expelled fifty years before CoS, and if memory serves, he became gamekeeper right after, so that means Molly had either already finished school at the time, or was somewhere between her 1st and 7th year at Hogwarts (because if not, she wouldn't remember Ogg) . That would make her at least 63 (but I think she's older than that). 

Marina - new to HP4GU


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