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

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 85969

At 22:34 26-11-03 +0000, you wrote:
>Marci <blackgold101 at y...> wrote:
> > Check out new info added to timeline and see if you agree.  Input
> > appreciated.
>
>
>I see you've put the birth year(s) of Snape, Lupin, James, Sirius et
>al as 1955-6. I was just wondering how that was worked out?
>
>JKR said in an interview given just after GOF was released
>(therefore summer 95 in canon)

It is normally assumed that this statement refers to his age
in GoF, and I certainly agree that this appears most likely.
There is of course the question of whether it is the start,
mid or the end of the book, if we want to be exact, so there's
an extra year of uncertainty there - making Snape 20 - 22 years
older than Harry.

It is, however, not specified that this age is valid for GoF,
so it is, IMO, possible to interpret it differently. Other
possible (though, IMO, much less likely) interpretations are
that the age is valid for either the start or the end of the
series, making Snape 24 - 25 years older or 17 - 18 years
older than Harry.

The same would of course apply for James, and the youngest
estimate would then require that he became a father before
or immediately after leaving Hogwarts, which does sound rather
unlikely.

/Troels