[HPforGrownups] Re: Ogg the Gamekeeper

[nymphadoraotonks at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 84765

Hello justcarol67 at yahoo.com,

In reference to your comment:

è You're probably right, since JKR seldom drops names
è casually. Ogg doesn't sound like a wizard's name to
è me. Maybe he was another half-blood of some sort. It
è sounds about as human as Grawp. But I'm just
è guessing, and was actually more concerned with Mrs.
è Weasley's age than with Grawp himself. (Oops! Ogg, I
è mean.) I don't see how she could have been to school
è before Hagrid's time, and I'm not sure that the
è apprentice explanation fully solves that problem.

Last spring ( around May, I think?) we discussed Molly's age extensively. 
There was always disagreement,  but the general consensus was that Molly was 
around 60. ( I am still not convinced of this). What we do know is that Voldemort 
and Hagrid were at school. If Ogg was gamekeeper then, and Molly knows of Ogg, 
she could well be sixty five by now because of Voldemort and Hagrid being at 
school together fifty years ago. 

There is obviously some time lacking in Hagrid's timeline. JKR has yet to 
fully explain much about Hagrid's pre-gamekeeper days which lie between his 
expulsion and become the fully fledged gamekeeper.

However, there is still the fact that Hagrid, being just an apprentice and 
not a paid staff member, might not have shown himself to students as he did once 
he became gamekeeper, thus, Molly could be much younger than was thought. ( 
The gamekeeper doesn't seem to be a post that most people see often-- remember 
the Trio sought him out because he had come to fetch Harry and became his 
first wizarding friend. I doubt if Hagrid had not been set to this job of fetching 
Harry that he would have become such a major target for the Slytherins until 
he had become a professor)

There are a few ages Molly could be because of the lack of clarity in canon, 
but that might be for a reason. As we have learned, JKR rarely does anything 
without a reason.

-Tonks


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