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

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 85934

At 01:22 27-11-03 +0100, Troels Forchhammer wrote:
>At 23:18 26-11-03 +0000, Erin 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.

As far as I can find it was McGonagall who compared Harry to
Charlie,

     'He caught that thing in his hand after a fifty-foot dive,'
Professor McGonagall told Wood. 'Didn't even scratch himself. Charlie
Weasley couldn't have done it.'

Unless it was another passage that I didn't find, that you thought
of?