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

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 115646


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> But I don't think Percy is old for his year. In fact, I think he's
> young for it. Most wizards learn to apparate at seventeen, when they
> come of age. Percy makes a big deal of his newfound ability to
> apparate at the beginning of GoF, when he has just left school. This
> suggests that he has only recently turned seventeen, either at the 
end
> of the school year or during the summer.  

Hickengruendler:

We already know Percy's birthday. It's August 22nd, JKR wished him a 
Happy Birthday on her website. Therefore you are right that his 
birthday is during the summer. However, since he's four years older 
than Harry, and Harry was fourteen at this time, Percy was already 
eighteen. Therefore he really waited around a year to make his 
apparating-license.