Out of term activity at Hogwarts

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 75140

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Crashing Boar" 
<crashing.boar at n...> wrote:

<<   That's the conclusion I'd come to as well, although I was more 
pointing out the canon evidence of both students and a member of 
staff being in Hogwarts during the holidays as a reply to their 
original query.  It still leaves me with the question of just what
were the boys doing there outside termtime AND before they were
officially pupils? >>

I agree that Madam Pince or her understudy had to be at Hogwarts in 
order to issue out books, but the students wouldn't need to come to 
Hogwarts to borrow library books if they were allowed to borrow books 
by owl order.

I don't believe that anyone on this list was checking books out of 
the libraries before they were officially pupils.

Check-out list of our copy of QTTA:

O. Wood ......... 09 April .... Oliver Wood, 5th year in PS/SS
B. Dunstan ...... 16 May
M. Flint ........ 22 June ..... Marcus Flint, 6th year in PS/SS 
C. Diggory ...... 02 July ..... Cedric Diggory, 3rd year in PS/SS 
A. Johnson ...... 19 July ..... Angelina Johnson, 3rd year in PS/SS
E. Macmillan .... 12 August ... Ernie Macmillan, 1st year in PS/SS
T. Boot ......... 21 August ... Terry Boot, 1st year in PS/SS
S. Fawcett ...... 16 September  'Claw girl who crossed GoF Age Line
K. Bundy ........ 10 October 
K. Bell ......... 19 October .. Katie Bell, 3rd year in PS/SS
C. Warrington ... 13 November . Slythie Chaser in PoA
J. Dorry ........ 06 December
T. Nott ......... 22 January .. Theodore Nott, same year as Harry?
S. Capper ....... 31 January
M. Bulstrode .... 06 February . Millicent Bulstrode, 1st year in PS 
F. Weasley ...... 15 February . Fred Weasley, 3rd year in PS/SS
H. Granger ...... 02 March .... Hermione Granger, 1st year in PS/SS   
H. Potter ....... 11 March .... Harry Potter, 1st year in PS/SS
 
I don't believe that this is the check-out list from when Harry read 
QTTA in autumn term of PS/SS (1991-92). For one thing, March 11 
wouldn't be in autumn term, before the flying lessons began. Harry 
must have checked it out again to re-read -- the names make it clear 
that this is a book that people re-read; Oliver Wood, for example, 
must have read QTTA before Harry ever got his Hogwarts letter.

I think this list begins in April '94 (1993-94 school year, PoA), 
when Oliver and Marcus were both still in school (Marcus 'had to 
repeat a year', thus giving rise to the word FLINT to mean an *error* 
by JKR). I guess Oliver re-read it as a break from studying for NEWTs 
and Marcus read it to kill time between end of exams and end of term. 

It can't begin in April '95 because Cedric was dead by July '95. I 
suppose it could begin in April '93 (1992-93 school year, CoS) unless 
some of those names I don't recognise are new students who started in 
GoF.

By the way, has anyone noticed that if Angelina's family name was 
Entwhistle instead of Johnson, then all three Gryffie Chaser girls 
would be named like musical instruments?