Hermione's Age (was:Re: DVD timeline mystery)

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No: HPFGUIDX 55646

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Devika" <devika at s...> wrote:

> impossible.  Whether or not WB and JKR used Steve's timeline as a 
> model is irrelevant to the debate on Hermione's age.  No one 
forced 
> JKR to accept all of the dates in the timeline.  If she had had 
any 
> major reason to make Hermione 13, then it would not have been 
> difficult for her to change that on the DVD timeline.  If JKR 
> verifies a timeline saying that Hermione turned 12 during her 
second 
> year, then I'm inclined to believe it,

For the record, it never says anything about Hermione's age on my 
timeline. That information is on other pages, but not on the 
timeline. Even if they did use the Lexicon as a timeline source, 
they would have had to intentionally add Hermione's age to it. It 
sounds like Rowling was going out of her way to answer one of the 
big fan questions. Darn nice of her, I say. Can't wait to see what 
she "casually mentions" in OoP...Bill's and Molly's ages, 
hopefully...Sinistra's gender...first names for Quirrell, Hooch, 
Sprout, etc...

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon