JKR Chat

[karenlyall666]

No: HPFGUIDX 92275

> karen.lyall at b...> wrote:
> JKR Chat ref (snip):
> JK Rowling replies -> Bill is two years older than Charlie, who 
> is two years older than Percy.
>
> Taking the above as 'fact' add the seven year rule from POA and
> The PS/SS quote of not having won "since Charlie left".
>
> What theories have we got.
> 1) Charlie left school early?
> 2) Charlie left the team earlier than 7th year?
> 3) JKR can't remember what she's already written?
>

Carol:
> But since Percy has just learned to apparate in GoF, it seems 
> more likely that he's still seventeen and was among the youngest, 
> not the oldest, in his class. But as you say, an additional year 
> can't solve the Quidditch Cup discrepancy. There's no way that 
> Charlie could have won the cup when he was ten or eleven (not yet 
> in school or too young to be on the team) and then lost it during 
> the years when he was captain (say fifth, sixth, and seventh years). 
> It doesn't add up; it can't add up; there's no explanation other than 
> F-L-I-N-T. <<<

Carol, I have to agree with you.  My earlier post (see above) was me 
playing devil's advocate.  I really do believe that the book 
information is correct and JKR just got a bit flustered in the Chat 
by a question that involved numbers.

If Bill and Charlie's ages aren't important why always have the 
information to hand?  Rather like the two missing Gryffindor Girls. 

By the way does everyone agree they exist, they just aren't 
important?  She didn't say they didn't exist so they must, right?

That last sentence made so much more sense in my head so I am now 
going to bed.

Karen