Narcissa Malfoy (WAS: Everything Stolen (WAS: Why the Dark Mark?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 121921


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Carol replies:
> I checked the Lexicon and didn't find birthdates for Molly and 
Arthur.
> Even Charlie's years of attendance at Hogwarts are marked as
> uncertain. Can you tell me where you found this information (which
> section of the Lexicon)? And if you're right, I hope Lexicon Steve
> will explain his criteria for having the Weasleys born in the 1950s
> because I'm sure that they're considerably older than Lucius 
Malfoy.
> 
> Malfoy, age 41 at the end of GoF, would have been born around 1955 
if MWPP and Snape were born in 1960 (the Lexicon says 1954 for 
Malfoy, but I think that's off by a year). At any rate, the evidence 
of Ogg the groundskeeper, mentioned by Halli, suggests that the 
Weasleys were much older. Surely Hagrid, who was in his forties or 
fifties at the time, would have been groundskeeper throughout 
Malfoy's years at Hogwarts (ca. 1966-1973). Mrs. Weasley also 
mentions that Apollyon Pringle, not Argus Filch, was caretaker when 
she went to school. But it was Filch, not Pringle, who deprived MWPP 
of the Marauders Map, and their time at Hogwarts (ca. 1971-1978) 
overlaps Malfoy's by about two years. Filch's age is hard to 
determine, but he seems at least as old as Hagrid, so I'm guessing 
that he was caretaker throughout Malfoy's Hogwarts years as well as 
(presumably) MWPP's. I think it's significant that both the 
caretaker and the groundskeeper were different for the Weasleys than 
for MWPP et al., 
>Snip> 

Tonks here:

If you look in the Lexicon, not under the Weasley family, but under 
the seperate entry for Molly, it says that they guess 1950.

I always thought that Molly and Arthur were around the same age as 
the Malfoys, manybe a bit older, but not more than 5 to 10 years 
max. Certainly not as old as Hagrid. 

I don't know about the different groundskeeper and caretaker, that 
is a bit odd.

Tonks_op