[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione's age and Ron's wand

[Lindsay W.]

No: HPFGUIDX 119734

Can someone please show me the interview where JKR says that Hermione 
started earlier because she was clever, and/or is the youngest of the three?

I have looked over the interviews twice, and even did a Quick Quote Quill 
search and can't find this at all!

Also, concerning Ron's wand - she even says that different sources will say 
different woods for those dates.  I imagine this is a deal where originally 
she had willow down for the Feb-March interval, and at some point her notes 
changed so that it was ash, and she forgot that it was already published in 
PoA as willow.  I can very well see her being confused - if she used 
letters to indicate months, instead of numbers, then Ma. could mean both 
May or March - and you'll notice that the April-May interval is 
willow.  Anyone who saw her notes in "Harry Potter and Me" can attest that 
they're rather...disorganized.  PoA was published back in what, '99?  I can 
certainly see her changing things around and not remembering it.

--Lindsay