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[Tara]

No: HPFGUIDX 102228

"kalmeeeh" <kalmeeeh at y...> wrote:

> 
> But Katie has to be in the same year as Fred and George. When Harry
> Potter joined the Quiditch team, he was in his first year, and the
> first 1st year to join a house team in a century.
> 
>  We know that Katie was already on the team before Harry joined, and
> no one else was signed on with Harry in his first year. Since Katie
> joined a year a before Harry and she couldn't have been a first year
> when she did, she must be in her third year when Harry joins the team.
> 
> -Luke


Why can't Katie have been a second year when Harry was a first year? 
She could have joined the team just a week or so before Harry was
chosen by McGonagall.  She could have gone through the regular try-out
process (which had failed to yield a decent seeker for them), and it
just wasn't mentioned because Harry wasn't thinking about Quidditch
until he was on the team himself.

At any rate, since JKR never specified what year Katie was, it's not
too much to accept that Katie is only a year ahead of the trio.  (No
more "Flints.")

Tara