Bill's Visit

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 86915

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkittyhawk97" 
<nkittyhawk97 at y...> wrote:
> In GoF on pg 616 Bill said he hadn't been to Hogwarts in five 
years. 
> But, the thing is, Charlie graduated 8 years ago at that time, and 
> Bill is older than Charlie. Therefore, you can conclude that Bill 
> visited Hogwarts a couple years after graduating. But why would he 
> do that? Any thoughts?

I always thought, since the ages of the two eldest Weasly children 
are so ambiguous, that it meant that five years ago was when he had 
graduated from Hogwarts, making him about twenty three or four in 
GoF and making Charlie about twenty one or two. And I know that 
someone will come back with the quote about how Gryffindor hadn't 
won the Quidditch cup for seven years since Charlie left, but it is 
never said that the last cup they won was in Charlie's senior year, 
so it is entirely possible that they won in Charlie's third or 
fourth year (when he was about 14). Though this still doesn't 
explain the three year gap between Charlie and Percy. 
Meri