Ron's Age, Hermione's Age Cut-off Dates

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No: HPFGUIDX 55965

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Greicy de los Santos 
<grace701 at y...> wrote:

'I agree with Monkey.  Not only does the WW not pay attention to 
Muggle details, they are eccentric enough to come up with their own 
cut off date.  I always assumed that Harry's class was born in 1980 
and that whoever was born in 1979 is a year ahead of Harry's class 
and those born 1981 are in Ginny's class.  Simple as that.

Greicy'

But that cannot work.  In GoF, sixth-year Cedric Diggory turns 17 
sometime before Oct 31, while in CoS, second-year Hermione Granger 
(according to the CoS DVD timeline) turns 12 on Sep 18, so the cut-
off date must lie between those two dates.

I do not know *why* JKR chose such a cut-off date, rather than the 
obvious Sep 1, which would have let all the students be Sorted at 11 
years of age, but sadly, she apparently did.

Bill