James and Lily, were how old, exactly?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88730

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> wrote:
> 
> liz vega wrote:
> > I've read on other sites that James and Lily were married right 
> > out of Hogwarts, within a year or so, Harry's born. That would make 
> > them either seventeen or eighteen?, Is this right? Where's the 
> > source for this? I didn't think there was any clue about their 
> ages, or anything else at this point, regarding those two. 
> 
> 
> Erin:
>   The source is JKR telling us in an interview that Snape was 35 or 
> 36 at the end of GoF.  Since he was in the same year as Harry's 
> parents, that gives us their ages.  
> 
> Erin


Also the Pensieve scene ("Snape's Worst Memory") in OoP shows Severus,
James, Sirius, and Remus all taking their DADA OWL together, meaning
that they were all in the same year. (I can't remember whether Peter
is also in that scene. It's possible that he and Lily were slightly
younger than the others.) At any rate, if Snape is 35 or 36 in GoF,
then so are Remus and Sirius, and James would also be that age if he
had lived. Subtract Harry's age in GoF (fourteen) and we have James as
approximately 21 when his son was born and about 22 when he and Lily
were murdered. Lily may have been even younger. I don't think we have
any canonical evidence to indicate that she was in the same year as
James. (Or is she wearing a Prefect badge in that scene?)

Carol