Timeline for ages & events (updated yet again)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 85961

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> wrote:
> K wrote:
> 
> >On a related note Ginny makes a comment about wanting to go to 
> Hogwarts since Bill got his letter - is that even possible? Would 
> she have been born when Bill was 11?<
> 
> KathyK:
> 
> Ginny says (CoS, US 323):
> 
> "I've looked forward to coming to Hogwarts ever since
> B-Bill came" 
> 
> ...edited... I don't think she was referring specifically to the
> time Bill began at Hogwarts but more generally to the time Bill 
> was there. 
> I may be off but that's how I interpreted her statement.
>  
> KathyK

bboy_mn:

I think we have to interpret it that way, otherwise, the statement is
inconsistent with everything else we know. We have to choose between
explanations that make the Potterverse work, and those that make it
'not work'. 

I think Ginny is implying that she has wanted to go ever since she
became aware of Bill going. It's not that often that I'm exposed to
young kids, so this is just a guess, but I would think she would have
to be 2 or 3 years old at least to be suffciently aware to understand
the world around her.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn