Hagrid's blunder or can any student by head boy/girl

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 94018

Witch Writer:
> Anycase, coming to Lilly being prefect and head girl( most 
> possibly both) , we have no canon evidence that they were both 
from 
> the same year. The students of one year write the exams together 
in 
> one hall. If Lilly had been in the same year, then she would have 
> written the exam in the big hall(to which Harry had been 
transposed 
> through Snapes pensieve.). But she was not to be discussed in the 
> hall I therefore strongly feel she must have been a year or more 
> younger than the Marauderers and Snape. She was among other girls 
> under a tree when the marauderers came out of the exam hall. 


Kimberly:
Lily was in the same exam as MWPP, and is therefore almost 
definitely in the same year as them.  On page 567 (UK):
"The sunlight was dazzling on the smooth surface of the lake, on the 
bank of which the group of laughing girls who had just left the 
Great Hall were sitting, with their shoes and socks off, cooling 
their feet in the water."   Then, as Lily comes up to stop James 
from tormenting Snape (p.570): "It was one of the girls from the 
lake edge.  She had thick, dark red hair that fell to her shoulders, 
and startlingly green almond-shaped eyes-- Harry's eyes." 



Kimberly