My shocking idea - the case for Tom Riddle

[ereturtle18]

No: HPFGUIDX 73622

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
<a ton of snipping>
> Well now, all wizarding students 
> receive their letter on their eleventh birthday.

ereturtle18: No, they don't. Hogwarts was trying to send Harry 
letters for at least a week before Harry's birthday. He just didn't 
get one until then because of the Dursleys' interferance. Also, 
Ginny recieved her letter on the same day as the rest of the 
Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione.


> Harry is lucky, 
> because his birthday is at the end of July, and school starts 
about 
> a month later.  But what happens to kids born after the school 
year 
> starts?  If Tom's birthday was on September 5 or something, he'd 
> have to wait almost an entire year until the following school year 
> started.  So he could have had his 12th birthday almost 
immediately 
> after first arriving at Hogwarts.  This would make him about a 
year 
> older than Harry in every school year, so he could have turned 16 
> right at the start of his 5th year.  
> Wanda