JKR Chat: Weasley Ages

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No: HPFGUIDX 92154

justcarol67 wrote:

But even if Charlie did leave  a year early, he still, by JKR's 
calculations, would have been seventeen when Ron was eleven. Yet the 
Gryffindor team had last won the cup seven years before SS/PS--
meaning that it was won when Charlie was ten, before he even entered 
the school! Something isn't right here, and I think it's JKR's math 
(combined with a spur-of-the moment response). Clearly it's not 
something she's thought about. In other words, I agree with Debbie: 
It's a Flint and nothing but a Flint.

Me:

I have always thought that JKR messed up when she said that it had 
been seven years since the cup was won by Gryffindor.

I think that she had INTENDED to say that Charlie was seven years 
older than Ron, and had a mental stumble.  If that is what she 
meant, then the rest of the pieces fall into place nicely:  Ginny 
DOES remember Bill going to Hogwarts, etc.

Bill