Molly & Arthur's ages

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 55671


> 
> Looking at the dates provided by the Lexicon, I conclude that Molly 
> left Hogwarts before Hagrid was hired as groundskeeper.  Here is why:
> 

<snip, because all the dates work very well in Bill's well-written timeline>

> 
> So, Molly left Hogwarts by 1964 at the latest, while Hagrid was hired 
> by Dumbledore sometime in the late 1960s, so Molly would have only 
> known Ogg as groundskeeper.  This is corroborated in Molly's stories 
> about Ogg, which never mention Hagrid.
> 
> Bill

I'm sold. Molly and Arthur probably never knew Hagrid, who was thrown out of 
Hogwarts in 1942-43, until the late 1970s  when Bill and Charlie started 
attending. Even then, they might have just heard of him for several years from 
Bill and Charlie's school stories.

This best a fantastic question though. What was Hagrid doing from the mid 
1940s until the late 1960s? 

Lucius still need to be tucked in here somewhere. Everything about the 
animosity between Lucius and Arthur suggests they were in school together.

Assuming Molly and Arthur, as Bill says, started having children fairly shortly 
after leaving Hogwarts as 18-year-olds in 1964, that would make them around 
48 at the time of GoF.  (This is assuming they are the same age.)

Lucius could be in his mid-40s, still a school mate of Molly and Arthur. That 
would mean he and Narcissa had Draco when they were around 30 or so, not 
uncommon in well-to-do families.

That would put Lucius at school at the same time as the Mauraders, but I don't 
think that's a problem. We've seen that, with rare exceptions, sixth- and 
seventh-years have very little to do with first- and second-years.

Darrin
-- I certainly had nothing to do with seventh-graders when I was a senior.