How Old Are Snape/Sirius/Lupin/James/Peter?

[psychic_serpent]

No: HPFGUIDX 76012

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meltowne" <meltowne at y...> 
wrote:
> I can't find the reference, but I think I recall Ron mentioning 
> that Ginny has wanted to attend Hogwarts since Charlie got his 
> letter. 

Actually, she said Bill, and many people feel that that is a glaring 
Flint, since all other evidence points to her not even being born 
when Bill first went to Hogwarts.  JKR probably should have corrected 
this long ago to say "Percy," who went to Hogwarts when Ginny was six 
years old, an age at which a child might be aware enough of what was 
going on around her to envy an older sibling for getting to go off to 
magic school.  

As the youngest of five, with a sister fifteen years older than me, I 
think about these things, but I think JKR and her sister are very 
close in age and she's not used to taking into account the fact that 
in very large families, the eldest and youngest siblings may actually 
not know each other very well.  The youngest may have very little 
cause to know first-hand about the early life of the oldest child in 
the family.  And none of the other children would have been in a 
position to envy either Bill or Charlie going off to school for the 
first time either, since Percy wouldn't have been able to be aware of 
this sort of thing much before the age of four (1980) and Bill 
probably would have started in 1975 or 1976, and Charlie in around 
1977 or 1978.

--Barb

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