Is Lily really the same age as James?

[Hitomi]

No: HPFGUIDX 89497

Mandy:
> That's why I'm on a mission to find canon proof that Lily and 
James 
> were the same age, because the more I think about it, the more I 
> don't believe they were.

Even if they're not the same age, they can't be far apart:

"How come she married him?" Harry aked miserably.  "She hated him!"
"Nah, she didn't," said Sirius.
"She started going out with him in seventh year," said Lupin (Book 
5, Rowling 671).

Which leads me to believe they were, more than likely, the same 
age.  But then, they might not have been.  But they can't be more 
than two years apart, because I highly doubt a fifteen-year-old 
James would like a twelve-year-old Lily, and Lily was still in 
school, so she couldn't have been older than seventeen/eighteen (if 
she and James were not the same age).

Hope that helps! :)

~ Hitomi