JKR Chat

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 92188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "corinthum" <kkearney at s...> 
wrote:
> Susan:
> 
> > And, okay, I'm embarrassed to even ask 
> > this but, didn't Ron tell Harry in SS/PS that Bill & Charlie were 
> > off w/ Gringotts & studying dragons, respectively??  Or [eeeek!] 
is 
> > that movie contamination?  If he DID say it, then Charlie WASN'T 
> > still at Hogwarts in HRH's first year.  
> 
> 
> Nope, no movie contamination there.  
> 
> 'Five,' said Ron... Bill and Charlie have already left..." (SS
> paperback p. 99)
> 
> -Corinth

Geoff:
And in addition....

"'So what do your oldest brothers do now they've left anyway?'
Harry was wondering what a wizard did once he'd finished school.
'Charlie's in Romania studying dragons and Bill's in Africa doing 
something for Gringott's', said Ron"

(PS "The Journey fom Platform Nine and Three-Quarters" p.80 UK 
edition)