Charlie Weasley's age

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 76430

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" 
<navarro198 at h...> wrote:

> 2. Charlie would have graduated before Fred and George started at 
> Hogwarts.  Considering Ron would have been only 4 when Charlie 
> graduated, and Fred and George would have been 6, the most likely 
> way the twins would have been "in training" is if they were on a 
> Quidditch Little League team, 

Maybe Charlie sometimes came home from Rumania to train the twins 
during their school holidays.

> 1. How old is Bill?

I usually fantasize that there is the same two year gap between Bill 
and Charlie as between Percy and the twins, the twins and Ron. But it 
occured to me that they could be in the same year at school despite 
being ELEVEN MONTHS different in age, if the older brother was born 
right after the cut-off date for Hogwarts.

> 2. Given the 2 year differences (1 year for Ginny) between the 
> youngest 7 kids and the big gap between Charlie and Percy, what
> were Molly and Arthur doing during the war?

Some people think there was one or two Weasley children born in 
that gap, who were killed by Death Eaters (parents coming home 
to see the Dark Mark over the house, as Arthur described in QWC 
chapter of GoF). One boy would make Ron a seventh son; if Arthur was 
also a seventh son, the seventh son of a seventh son is supposed to 
be a seer or have other magic powers.

IIRC another theory is that Arthur was put under Imperius and did 
something awful and was put in Azkaban for a couple of years, until 
Molly could PROVE his innocence.

I thought maybe they originally intended to have only two children, 
but when so many good wizards and witches were being killed by Death 
Eaters, they felt a duty to reproduce the wizarding species, but the 
timing confuses me.