Ages

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No: HPFGUIDX 56092

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Grosskreutz" <
ivanova at i...> wrote:
> Lots of discussion has been made about Hermione's age and 
just when a person gets to enter Hogwarts.  It just made me 
think about the whole thing, and I remembered the bit in GoF 
about who turned 17 when.  Fred and George are in their sixth 
year in GoF.  They do not turn seventeen until April.  Another 
person (Angelina?) said that she could enter because she had 
just had her 17th birthday.  So it would appear that sixth year 
students have their 17th birthday sometime during the year.  
Tracing that backwards, using that logic, students would be 
expected to turn 12 during their first year of Hogwarts.  However, 
as far as we know, they turn 11 that year.  Just another thing to 
throw into this discussion.
> 
> Kelly Grosskreutz
> http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova/


If we combine what we know about Hermione's birthday and 
Angelina's birthday, then the cut-off date to enter Hogwarts in a 
given school year is sometime between Hermione's birthday 
(Sept. 17?) and Angelina's which is a week before Halloween.  
This would make Angelina one of he oldest in her year and 
Hermione one of the youngest in her's.  So, someone would turn 
11 in their first year if they were born before whatever date it is 
(late Sept - mid-October) and 12 if they were born after this.

Where I went to grade school the cut-off was October 1st, so this 
makes sense to me.  I guess the Wizard World is as strange as 
Nova Scotia.

-Ing