[HPforGrownups] Hagrid/Ogg (was: Arthur Weasley in Gryffindor?)

[Steven Spencer]

No: HPFGUIDX 111409

Deb wrote:

> I just finished rereading GOF last night. Molly specifically tells
> Harry (when visiting before Task 3) that she was yelled at by the Fat
> Lady one night for sneaking in at 4:00 am, out walking with Arthur.
> She definitely says, "I was" not "We were" told off . . . so . . .
> she obviously came back on her own. Is that because Arthur was
> detained by Filch's predecessor, or because he was trying to sneak
> into the Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff dorm at the time?

Huh. You're right. I never noticed that before!

Just as a niggling observation I made from that same scene, and I 
apologize if it's been gone over to death already - Molly makes a 
comment about the Gameskeeper before Hagrid, a man named Ogg. If Hagrid 
indeed became gameskeeper shortly after his expulsion from school, 
wouldn't that mean that Molly was there *before* (thus making her older 
than) Tom Riddle and Hagrid? Either it's an erroneous assumption based 
on when Hagrid actually did become GK, or it's a Flint, or else the 
elder Weasleys  are considerably older than they seem, which would then 
beg the question why she and Arthur waited so very many years before 
starting a family.

Any ideas?

Terpnurse