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

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 53601

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 Meliss9900 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/11/2003 4:37:32 AM Central Standard Time, 
> patricia at obscure.org writes:
> 
> > 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 what's she's saying is that Angelina turned 11 after the term already 
> started. and since her birthday is in Oct she would have had to have been 10 
> at the start of term.

Yes, that is what she seems to be saying, but it's not correct.  As the
chart above shows, if Angelina turned 17 in her sixth year (which we know
is true from GoF) then she had to turn 12 (not turn 11) in her first year.  
Angelina was *not* 10 at the start of her first term.  The math in the
original post was simply wrong.

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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"