Charlie Weasley's age (Was: JKR update re: Colin)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115058


Angie wrote:
> I posted elsewhere before I saw this.  The question was how could 
> Colin's camera work, being a Muggle camera and JKR said something 
> like, "Who said it worked?"
> 
> Well, respectfully, she did. I remember in SS, Colin showed Harry 
> the pic he took with Lockhart and Harry was pleased to see that his 
> photographic self was putting up a fight.  So, I don't understand 
> her comment at all.  Except maybe she's human like the rest of us!

Carol responds:
Of course you know about the update to her site since you posted this,
so I won't say any more on that topic. But, yes, she is human, as she
has shown a number of times with inconsistencies like the date of Sir
Nick's death or the number of students at Hogwarts. And her statement
that Charlie is three years older than Percy may take care of his not
being Seeker when Harry entered Hogwarts, but it still doesn't resolve
the problem of its being seven years since Gryffindor won the
Quidditch Cup. Charlie was the best Seeker Hogwarts ever had before
Harry, yet Gryffindor never won during the whole seven years he was on
the team? Or am I misremembering McGonagall's words and the time frame
here?

Carol, who knows she ought to look it up but is bound and determined
to get caught up on posting instead