The Fans v JK Rowling

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No: HPFGUIDX 92370

nkafkafi wrote:

{BTW: just gleefully adding my part to the confusion around 
Hermione's age, I'll note that biologically she is actually several 
months older than she is supposed to be, because of her use of the 
time-turner to get into all those classes in PoA. The math (oh 
dear...) goes like this: Hermione goes to the Charms class from 
11:00 to 12:00, then she jumps back in time one hour and goes to the 
Ancient Runes class from 11:00 to 12:00. While for the outside world 
only one hour had passed, for Hermione it was two hours. I'm sure 
JKR was aware of this since she described how hungry was Hermione at 
lunch. For her mealtime is long past due. So by how much was 
Hermione aged during that year? If we assume that for about 9 
months, she was repeating a third of each 24 hrs day (normal 
teaching hours), then she added a third of those 9 months, or 
additional 3 months. This means that at her 15th birthday (whenever 
it was!) she was biologically 15 years and 3 months old...}

Me:

I really doubt that she was repeating 8 hours a day, seven days a 
week.  She was taking 3 extra subjects for half a year, then 2 extra 
subjects after she quit Divination.  We know that she can handle one 
extra subject without using the time-turner, since she keeps it 
after her third year.  She is evidently using the time-turner ONLY 
for repeating the classroom time, since she is increasingly tired 
and irritable through the year, from lack of sleep.  The 'optional' 
classes seem to be one lesson per week.  I don't know how long they 
are, but assume two hours each, at most.

That's 4 hours per week for half of the school year, and 2 hours per 
week for the other half of the school year, for a total of 120 kours 
= 5 days.  Not much at all!  Even if there are two two-hour lessons 
per week per subject (which I doubt), it is still only 10 days.



On the other hand, she was petrified for a much longer period in her 
second year.  Taking that into account, she is actually biologically 
YOUNGER than her chronological age.

Bill