[HPforGrownups] Re: The timeline on the DVD *confirms* canon;

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 56089

On 25 Apr 2003 at 0:21, rosi wrote:

> rosi:
> I must say that I have to agree with Ali. I was
> accelerated twice when I was in school and during that
> time I was constantly taunted because of it. Even now,
> in university, I still get some jokes about it. If
> Hermione was/is accelerated a year, I think that we
> would have been told about it. Or, at least the other
> kids in her grade would have said *something* (they
> can't have not noticed it, really!).

Actually, they can, and they do. I know of numerous cases where kids have been 
accelerated and nobody in their classes is aware of it. Certainly, most of the time people 
work it out, even if they are not told - but by no means all of the time. I've even 
encountered one case where a boy was accelerated 3 years and nobody picked up on it 
until he was 14, and in his final year of high school - it came out then because people 
asked why he wasn't going for his learners permit as a driver. As you're aware, some 
kids do get teased over this - and so some kids are told and helped to keep it quiet.


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