Tonks's age/ ages in general

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No: HPFGUIDX 70317

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
> Rachel, how do you know that Harry is one of the youngest in his 
> year? There isn't any canon evidence, is there? In fact, I'd say 
> that Harry's experience was fairly average, given the amount of 
> students disappointed that they can't enter the Tri-wizard in the 
> October of their sixth year. I don't know if you're going on the 
> English cut-off dates or not - these are the ones that would make 
> Hermione one of the oldest students in the year, right? (I could 
> snootily point out that Hogwarts is a Scottish school and our cut-
> off date is at the end of February, but I'm not sure if this would 
> help matters or not)
> Kirstini, scratching her head like a puzzled monkey.

Because we know that the cut-off date is no later than mid-October.  
Angelina turned 17 in mid-October of her sixth year.

That would mean that at the very most a student can be 2 1/2 months 
younger than Harry and be in his year.  Thus a student could be 9 
1/2 months older and be in his year.

Harry may not be one og the very youngest, but he's on the younger 
end.

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