Timeline for ages & events (updated yet again)

[bibphile]

No: HPFGUIDX 85939

me (bibphile):
I don't think so, Marci.  Charlie is younger than Bill.  If Bill 
had 
graduated 5 years ago, Charlie would have had to graduate the year 
before Harry started.
 
In PS Fred said they hadn't won the Quidditch cup since Charlie 
left.  Id Charlie had just left he's badically be saying "We 
haven't 
won the Quidditch cup since last year."  That makes no sense 
becuase 
that was the last opportunity to win the Quidditch cup.
 

Marci:
> 
> I just finished reading PS again.  I came across Slytherin winning 
> the House cup six years in a row.  No mention of them not winning 
> since Charlie left.  Only mentioning is that Harry is a 'better' 
> seeker.  I think he says something along those lines in POA though.
> 

That's the House Cup.  I was talking about the Quidditch cup. It is 
a completely seperate thing.

In PS they hadn't won the House Cup for 6 years.

In POA they had lost the Quidditch Cup 7 years in a row.

In PS Fred said they hadn't won the Quidditch Cup since Charlie 
left.  By that comment I think they probably won Charlie's 7th year 
and certainly their last win was no later than his 5th.  So Charlie 
is 10-12 years older than Harry and Ron.  I go with 12.

Of course, that goes against Ginny's comment that she's wanted to go 
to Hogwarts since Bill went.  That doesn't make much sense if he was 
14+ (or even 12+) when she was born.  So I assume she meant one of 
the times he went to Hogwarts, not the first.

We've been arguing about this for years.  I doubt we'll really know 
until JKR tell us.

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