[HPforGrownups] Re: Timeline for ages & events (updated yet again)

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 85933

At 23:18 26-11-03 +0000, you wrote:
>Troels wrote:
> > If we go by what seems the most realistic interpretation of
> > Charlie's Quidditch victories - i.e. that he and his team
> > won while he was in his seventh year, then we get a Charlie
> > Weasley who is twelve years older than Ron and Harry, and if
> > we furthermore require that Ginny was three years old when
> > she remembers Bill coming to Hogwarts, then he would be
> > about thirteen years older than Harry and Ron (14 years older
> > than Ginny).
>
>
>Erin:
>In PS, Wood compares Harry's and Charlie's flying styles.  How would
>he be able to do that if he had never seen Charlie fly?  I think it
>more reasonable to assume Charlie last won in his sixth year.  That
>way, Wood could have seen him in his first year and Charlie's seventh
>year, and yet Wood would never have seen Gryffindor win a Quidditch
>cup.

I overlooked that - thanks.
You are of course right - that changes the assessment of the most
reasonable year for his last Quidditch Cup victory. Incorporating
the requirement that Wood's first year must be the same as Charlie's
seventh into the table we get:

  Charlie's    Gryf. not    Wood's    Harry's
    years       winning     Years     years

     1
     2
     3
     4
     5
     6 . . . . . 1
     7 . . . . . 2 . . . . . 1
     8 . . . . . 3 . . . . . 2
     9 . . . . . 4 . . . . . 3
    10 . . . . . 5 . . . . . 4
    11 . . . . . 6 . . . . . 5 . . . . . 1
    12 . . . . . 7 . . . . . 6 . . . . . 2
    13 . . . . . 8 . . . . . 7 . . . . . 3

Which makes Charlie ten years older than Harry.

That means that Charlie won the Quidditch cup for the last
time while he was in his fifth year - a little younger than
I originally thought reasonable (especially in light of his
legendary status), but he could have been instrumental in their
winning it four times in a row at that point, and he would of
course still be a fabulous seeker even if the rest of the side
wasn't up to his standard.

I think it's possible that Ginny's "since Bill came ..." might
refer to the point when he came home after taking his NEWTs -
IIRC he got a fair number and that might have provoked a party
in the Burrow that young Ginny might remember. I don't think
it's reasonable to assume that she'd remember anything from
before she was two, so let's stick to Bill being a maximum of
sixteen years older than Ginny. That puts Bill down as being
eleven to fifteen years older than Harry and Ron (discarding
the possibility of Bill and Charlie being in the same year).

That's not too bad - narrowing it down to about four years
is better than I had hoped for ;-)

Thanks again ;-)

Troels