Is Hermione Older or Younger than Harry?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mongo62aa" <mongo62aa at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Robert Jones" 
> <jones.r.h.j at w...> wrote:
> > We know from the books that Harry was born on July 31st and that 
> > Hermione was born in September (her parents gave her an early 
> > birthday present so she could buy stuff in Diagon Alley).
> > 
> > But was she born in the same year as Harry or the previous year?  
> > That is, is she one or two months younger or ten or eleven months 
> > older?  No great plot point turns on this, I was just wondering.
> > 
> > Bobby
> 
> <snip>  In addition, information 
> given out by JKR on the March 4 2004 chat contradicts several dates 
> in the DVD timeline.  <snip>> In my opinion, Hermione is the oldest 
of the trio.
> 
> Bill

JKR has stated that Hermione was 10 when she started at Hogwarts, 
that she is the youngest of Harry, Ron and herself.