The Weasleys (update on JKR's page)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115651


Finwitch wrote: 
> Allright, what I'm up to, is a bit of Weasley-sibling-dynamics.
> Firstly, siblings compete for their parents' attention...
<huge snip of an interesting an entertaining post>

> Next year. Bill's 16 (and got a good number of OWLs I suppose), 
> Charlie may have made it to Quidditch Captain already, at 14.
> Percy goes to Hogwarts for first time. His both elder brothers are 
> there, Bill as a *prefect*, Charlie as Quidditch Captain (I think). 
> They continue the old elder-brother authority over Percy, only this 
> time it's also due to having special titles... titles their Mother 
> appreciates. (Did Percy get his rat at age 5 or now, as beginning
the school gift?)

Carol responds to the parenthetical remark:
I don't think a street rat like Scabbers would be given to Percy as a
gift. The rats sold in Diagon Alley are the magical, long-lived type.
Also, surely Wormtail would immediately have searched for a home with
a wizarding family (a poor one where the children would be glad to
have a rat as a pet and where he could overhear gossip about the DEs
and so forth; the Weasleys are perfect on both counts). So Percy
probably had him as a pet from the time he was five or six.


Finwitch wrote:
<snip> 

> Next year, Bill makes it to Head Boy. (It is possible that Charlie 
> makes it to Prefect, but it was never mentioned). <snip>

Carol responds:
What about Molly's infamous "That's everyone in the family" remark,
meaning that all the kids so far (except the twins) have been
prefects? That would include Charlie as well as Bill and Percy.

Carol, with apologies for the huge snips