[HPforGrownups] Re: Character descriptions (was OoP covers...)

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 58531


--- GulPlum <hp at plum.cream.org> wrote:

> >Granted, nothing has been stated in canon to say
> James and Lily 
> >immediately married or immediately started having
> kids, but by speculating 
> >this way, one can figure that the youngest they can
> be is 35.  They 
> >could've been older than this, but it gives one a
> starting point.
> 
> Which was my entire point. That indicates only the
> youngest they can 
> possibly be, but it's based *entirely* on
> assumptions, and not actual 
> canon. We have no indications in canon, even after
> four books, that Lily & 
> James married and had Harry straight out of Hogwarts
> (or even that Harry is 
> their first child!), and thus until the PoA
> revelations, they could quite 
> reasonably be assumed to be much older.


Well, I don't typically read interviews and the like,
but I thought at one point JKR said that Snape was
about 36 and I think that was referring to POA.  I
just assumed James and Lily to be the same age as him.


Rebecca

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