Riddle and Grindelwald in 1945

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 109134

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

> Geoff:
> In UK schools, the cut-off date for ages is 31st August. So anyone 
> whose 11th birthday falls within that frame goes into the new First 
> Year(modern Year 7). Hence, Harry is one of the youngest pupils in 
> his year.
> 
> I nearly made the point in my last post that Riddle must have a 
> birthday early in the school year, because if we accept that he was 
> in the Fifth Year and 16 and the Chamber was opened in the autumn 
> term of 1942 (awful lot of Boolean "ands" there [!]) then his 16th 
> birthday must have fallen early in his Fourth year making him one 
of 
> the oldest pupils.

Geoff:
Whoops!

Correcting my own post. What I meant to say was that his 16th 
birthday must have fallen early in his Fifth Year - theoretiacally he 
could have been 16 as early as 01/09/42.