Intro, Q's Tonks

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 110041

Steve asked: 
> 2. How long does Auror training take? In OotP Tonks says she 
> qualified a year ago. OotP US ed. Pg 52. Even if it takes 2 years, 
> she would have been at Hogwarts as a 7th year during PS/SS. I seem 
> to remember her saying she was in Gryffindor but I can't find the 
> quote right now.  From JKR's descriptions of Tonks she does seem to 
> be part of the part of the generation born in the mid 70's and grew 
> up during the 80's. The odd hair colors, and the talking back to 
> authority figures (Moody)

Yblitzka here:

"I'm going on pure speculation here, but I suppose it takes 3-4 years 
at least to be fully trained as an Auror. There's probably a lot to 
learn. I see Tonks as early 20's, maybe 21 to 23, so she could be an 
80's child. If we take CoS to be '92-'93, then OotP would be '95-'96, 
so that would put her born in the early 80's. I have a hard time 
seeing her being older than 25, though she may just have a thing 
against acting her age."

DuffyPoo:
"because Auror training takes a further three years." [McGonagall- OotP Careers Advice]
McGonagall also said "It's a difficult career path, Potter, they only take the best. I don't think anybody has been taken on in the last three years."  That must mean 'taken to start the training' as Tonks herself, said "I only qualified [as an Auror] a year ago.   Nearly failed on Stealth and Tracking."

All this is four years....that would put Tonks out of Hogwarts the June before HP starts in Sept (if I did the math right, it is quite likely I did not as I am both calendar and math-challenged).
1995 in Aug the Advance Guard comes to Privet Drive
1994-1995 for the year before that Tonks is an Auror (for sake of argument July 1994-present)
1991- 1994 for the three years of Auror Training, starting right out of school July 1991- June 1994
Pre June 1991 she would be at Hogwarts  HP would have started Sep 1991 (using the cake for dates)

If you add in Yblitzka's "plus probably a year in the field for practice" that would be five years and she would have been out of Hogwarts in June 1990.  My two cents.  

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