[HPforGrownups] Hermione's age Q: ANSWERED!!!!!

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 53591

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, tub_of_earwax wrote:

> This means Angelina's birthday is in October somewhere, because
> she 
> said this with Halloween-ish. Angelina was in her sixth year. 17-
> 6=11. 
> She was eleven in October when she first came to Hogwarts, which 
> means:
> 
> Hermione started Hogwarts at the age of 10. 
> She was born September 9th 1980.

Er, I'm not following this.  Are you saying Angelina *turned* 11 during 
her first year?  If so, that's not correct.

Angelina's 6th year: age 16-17
5th year: age 15-16
4th year: age 14-15
3rd year: age 13-14
2nd year: age 12-13
1st year: age 11-12

Ergo, Angelina was 11 when she entered Hogwarts.

I think your problem is in the equation "17-6=11".  First year is only 
five years prior to sixth year (6-5=1).  So the equation you should have 
used is "17-5=12", showing that Angelina turned 12 during her first year.

Even if Angelina had been 10 when she entered Hogwarts, that doesn't mean 
that Hermione was definitely also 10 when she entered.  It would only mean 
that starting at age 10 is a possibility.  The question of whether it 
actually happened in Hermione's case would still be open.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"