I can't do the math!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 128838

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doug Pratt" <dad at p...> wrote:
> Yes, I actually am a rocket scientist...but I am having problems
> getting my head around some of the dates in the HP canon.
> 
> Let me see if I have this right. Tom Riddle and Hagrid were in school
> together, although not necessarily the same year. Hagrid gets expelled
> and Dumbledore persuades Dippet to train him as gamekeeper. Malfoy,
> Arthur Weasley and Molly Soon-to-be-Weasley were in school at around
> the same time. <snip>


Carol responds:
I'm sure that by now you've consulted the Lexicon, but just in case
you haven't--Tom Riddle aka Voldemort is about 66 at the time of
"Chamber of Secrets"; Lucius Malfoy is 41 at the end of "Goblet of
Fire." He's about five years older than the Marauders and Snape,
nowhere near the same age as Riddle/Voldemort and the slightly younger
Hagrid. The Weasleys are problematic, but they seem to be even older
than Voldemort.

Carol