Ogg the Gamekeeper

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84689

> ___nkittyhawk, who doesn't believe in flints, wrote:
> > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Hagrid said he got the 
> > Gamekeeper job after he was kicked out of Hogwarts (maybe right 
> > after, a year after - that sort of time frame)
> > Well, I though it a bit strange that Mrs. Weasley at the end of GoF 
> > was reminiscing about the gamekeeper that came before Hagrid (Ogg).
> > Wouldn't that mean she (and, of course, Arthur) were at school with 
> > Tom Riddle, Hagrid and Myrtle, or even *before* them? 
> 
>
ayers185 said: 
> It is quite impossible, in my opinion, to assume that Hagrid just one 
> day took over the job, leaving his predecessor out of a job.  What 
> makes more sense is that Hagrid was apprenticed to Ogg until such 
> time as he was ready to take o'er the job himself.
> 
>


Not to mention that Mrs. Weasley would have to be older than Hagrid,
who is in his sixties, if she was already out of school when he became
gamekeeper at thirteen, which seems to me extremely unlikely. My
guess, based on the approximate ages of their older sons, is that Mr.
and Mrs. Weasley are in their mid-forties to early fifties. I can't
imagine Mrs. Weasley waiting till she was in her late thirties or
early forties to get married. But unfortunately, there's no solid
evidence one way or another. Or, I should say, none that I'm aware of.
I do believe in flints, BTW, and this may well be one. But if so, why
bring Ogg up at all?

Carol