Is Lily really the same age as James?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 89484

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" 
<rredordead at a...> wrote:
> I have a question regarding Lily Evens Potter.
> 
> Is she the same age as James Potter?
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> One reason this bothers me is in the pensive scene in Snape's 
Worst 
> Memory, Chapter 28, OotP - American Ed., there is no mention of 
Lily 
> in the exam room.  She comes in to our conscious as sitting by the 
> lake outside.  It strikes me as odd that after the jolt of seeing 
his 
> father in front of him in the Great Hall, Harry doesn't look for 
his 
> mum.  Harry's attention is taken from James back 4 rows to Sirius, 
> then on to Remus and then he thinks Peter must be here somewhere 
and 
> actively looks for him before he finds Pettigrew sitting a few 
desks 
> away.  Harry doesn't even think of looking for his mother.  Does 
> anyone else think this is odd?  
> 
> Why wouldn't JKR have put Lily in the Great Hall if she is the 
same 
> age and would be also sitting her DADA OWL? 

Maybe back in the 1970's (or whenever James and Lily were students) 
boys and girls at Hogwarts did things like exams seperately. As 
Ron's graceful slide down the girl's staircase in the Gryffindor 
common room attests to, there were efforts (albeit onesided efforts) 
to keep the sexes seperate. Maybe back in the day boys and girls 
took their meals and some classes (and their OWLs) seperatley. 
Perhaps a WW version of Title IX ended this practice and finally 
Hogwarts could have co-ed Quidditch teams!! ;) And as to Harry not 
looking for his mother in the exam room, I can understand that. He 
was certainly overwhelmed with seeing both his godfather and his 
father as kids and probably had too much in mind to think of it. 
After all, for the last five years people had been telling him how 
much, both physically and personality wise, Harry resembles James. 
Why shouldn't he focus more on his dad at the moment? 
Meri (who can't wait to find out what made James stop being an idiot)