Percy's B/day & new FLINT? (was New B-day on JKR's site )

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 110988

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> In POA (1993/4), Percy is in his 7th and final year and sitting his 
> NEWTS. In GOF, Ch 6 (1994/5), he had passed his apparition 
test 'two 
> weeks ago', which you can't do until you are a WW 'adult', ie 17. 
> 
> If he was 17 in the summer of 1995, this means he was born in 
August 
> 1977.
> For JKR's own dating to work, Harry must have been having his dream 
> on the night of Friday/Saturday 18/19th August (I'm using the real 
> dates here, but they are about 2 weeks before the end of the 
month). 
> He is then collected by the Weasley's on Sunday 20th August, and 
they 
> go to the QWC overnight on Monday/Tuesday 21st/22nd. However, the 
> 22nd is now supposed to be Percy's birthday - so this dating must 
be 
> wrong. The events relating to the QWC have to be taking place on 
> 22nd+2 weeks, ie 4th/5th September, if the comments about Percy 
> passing his apparition test 'two weeks ago' are also true.
> Carolyn
> Exasperated yet again by JKR's maths...

The only evidence we have for the cut-off date is that it is 
somewhere between Ginny's and Angelina's bdays... Aug and Oct? 
respectively (I need my books back!). I think we are _ALL_ certain 
that summer birthdays are like Harry's, i.e. you turn 10+x before 
your xth year. ...this was guessed by another replier, but in fact, 
this is simply known to be true.

So Percy would have turned 17 in the PoA timeframe, and turned 18 
sometime around GoF's QWC.

So why the delay? Well, we only know 3 newly licensed apparators, and 
they are all Weasleys... but we still don't know details about 
training and fees. I can quite _easily_ surmise that Percy had to 
save up to pay for all or some of his fees, hence waiting until after 
we was working at the MoM, while the twins were able to dip into 
Harry's investment (good way to get away from Molly to make 
preparations and all). This _is_ a little fishy because of the 
Egyptian trip, but perhaps it's just a household rule; isn't Molly 
not the biggest fan of apparating?

But, given that Percy only had a week before his 7th year to learn 
and test (and he was too busy writting Penelope probably), it makes 
sense that he would not accomplish it before school, and therefore 
put it off until the next summer.

Josh