Charlie Weasley's age

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No: HPFGUIDX 76475

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" <bibphile at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mongo62aa" <mongo62aa at y...> 
> wrote:
> >but not reaching the Cup, his final 
> > three years, then he would have finished Hogwarts in 1989, 
> finishing 
> > at Hogwarts just before the Twins started their first Year.
> > 
> 
> It's possible, but I don't think so.  "We haven't won since 
Charlie 
> left" implies to me that they won Charlie's last year.  Or at the 
> very least, his second to last year.  If they didn't win his last 
> three years, I don't think they'd connect winning to Charlie (no 
> matter how good he was).  It would mean they'd lost fully half of 
> the years he played (which might make sense if it were the first 3 
> years he played, but not if it's the last three).
> 
> Besides, I think it's highly likely (but admittedly not certain) 
> that Oliver was on the team his second year and in PoA Oliver was 
> acting as if he'd never been on a Cup-winning team.
> 
> bibphile

I agreed that Charlie led a string of victories ending his final 
year.  There's just something about the way it was written.  
Otherwise they would have said that it had been x-number of years 
since Gryffindor had won and not made a connection to Charlie. If I 
remember correctly, Oliver is the same year as Percy so he would 
have started 4 or 5 years after Charlie left.

I saw Bill's post about Charlie being at Hogwarts from 78 to 86. I 
wonder if whoever did their calculations made the same mistake I 
made at first when subtracting 8 instead of 7 years from 
McGonagall's statement in PoA.  And yes, JKR considers it acurate, 
but did she check every single detail?  SHe has confused us before 
about facts.

Whether or not it was 85 or 86, these still hold true:
Charlie graduated before Percy (and therefore Oliver) and the 
younger Weasleys started, and there is a wide gap of 8 or 9 years 
between Charlie and Percy.

Ravenclaw Bookworm