relationships/ages of characters

[hermionegallo]

No: HPFGUIDX 80689

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, A Featheringstonehaugh 
<featheringstonehaugh at y...> wrote:
>  
> hg wrote:
> > "And some folks have been wondering about the Weasleys and their 
friendship with the >  Potters: that would have arisen w/ their 
involvement in the Order.
>  
>  
> AF:  But do we know that the Weasleys and the Potters were friends 
or indeed, were A & M even in the Order before this latest 
activation ?  Remember:  in the OoP, when  Moody showed Harry the old 
photo of the members of the Order, he remarked that it was taken 
before Arthur and Molly had joined.  

hg again:
I just looked it up, and Moody makes no such comment about the 
Weasleys.  I didn't remember it being there because it wasn't there! 

page 177 hb:  Lupin says, "...we're much better off than we were last 
time, you weren't in the Order then, you don't understand, last time 
we were outnumbered twenty to one by the Death Eaters and they were 
picking us off one by one..."

But in GoF Arthur is one of the first people Dumbledore calls upon to 
join up (quote something like "I can count on you and Arthur" to 
Molly).  I think they were certainly involved, but differently.
hg.