Charlie Weasley's age

[scoutmom21113]

No: HPFGUIDX 76434

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" 
> <navarro198 at h...> wrote:
> 
> Maybe Charlie sometimes came home from Rumania to train the twins 
> during their school holidays.

Good point.  I hadn't thought about that.

> 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.

There are 2 boys in my son's class who are in exactly that 
situation.  Most people think they are twins.  However, I think 
something would have been said before now if that was the case with 
Bill and Charlie.

> 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.

I've heard this theory and it is possible.  Bill and Charlie would 
know, of course, but they are obviously capable of keeping secrets.  
The circumstantial evidence against it that I would think that they 
would have gotten choked up when they described it during the World 
Cup but there didn't seem to be any unusual emotion displayed.  Is 
Arthur a 7th son?  Or is Molly a 7th?  And does it apply to a 7th 
child, not just a son?  I'm thinking about Ginny of course.

If they had all their children 2 years apart, that would indicate 3 
born between Charlie and Percy.  (I used to work with a man who had 
10 kids, each one 2 years behind the previous - and no twins. His 
wife said she wanted a baker's dozen!)  The loss of 3 kids would be 
a family tragedy that at least would have been hinted at by now.  I 
wonder if they, or one of them, were working under cover, or 
something like that so that they weren't together.

> 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.

Anything is possible.  I'm not sure this is plausible since there 
has been NO hint of anything like that and JKR has said she was 
trying to get a lot of clues into this book so she could build on 
them in the next 2.

Ravenclaw Bookworm