The Animagi was Re: Giving the map to Lupin (Was: Lupin...

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 90198

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 2/3/2004 3:24:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> lizvega2 at y... writes:
> Where is it stated in any book that the 'prank' Sirius played on 
> Snape happened in the sixth year? 
> ******************

Sherrie: 
> In PoA, Snape tells Dumbledore that Sirius proved himself capable 
of murder 
> at sixteen years old.  That would make him sixth year, I think.
> 

Geoff:
Not necessarily. Pupils who are in what is now Year 11 (the old Fifth 
Year) and coming up to GCSE examinations are those folk whose 16th 
birthday falls between 1st September and 31st August of the year in 
which they are the year. When they enter the Sixth Form they are 
already 16.