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

[Kathryn Cawte]

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From: <MadameSSnape at aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] The Animagi was Re: Giving the map to Lupin
(Was: Lupin...

> Sherrie, again:
>
> That may be the case IRL, but it appears to me that Hogwarts students'
ages
> correspond with their years - or rather, with the beginning of their
years.
> First years are 11, Seconds are 12, and so on, though they will most
likely have
> birthdays during the year.  We know Angelina, for example, turned 17 in
> October of her sixth year (GoF, p. 230 UK paper) - therefore, she was 16
when that
> year began.  We can also infer that the Prank hadn't happened yet at the
time
> of "Snape's Worst Memory", so Sirius could not yet have turned 16 at the
end
> of his fifth (O.W.L.s) year.
>
K

But he could according to your argument. If Angelina turned 17 in her 6th
year then she must have turned 16 in the October of her *fifth* year.

K