I can't do the math!

[Brent]

No: HPFGUIDX 128911

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> --- 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

I'm not sure they have to be that much older then Harry's parents.  
The Lexicon lists James and Lily as havinging been born in 1960.  
Charlie the oldest Weasley child went to Hogwarts starting in 1984 
which would mean he was born in 1972.  So the Weasleys could be born 
in as late as 1952 and graduating around 1970. The problem with that 
is the gamekeeper position.  

Hagrid was expelled and around 1943.  He would need to be in training 
for the gamekeeper job for for almost 20 years for this to be right.  
Lets split the diference.  Lets say Hagrid was training for about 10 
years.  Then Molly would have been born in 1942.  She would have been 
30 years old when she first had Charlie and 39 when she had Ginny 
(born in 1981).  So the most likely age would be closer to this.  I 
doubt she would have been much older then 30 before she started 
having kids.  Maybe she had a job before she started thinking about 
kids.  It seems Wizards live long lives if they don't get killed.

Since it sounds like she knew Ogg for a few years this could push the 
training to a bit longer.  

So I don't think she has to be anywhere near LV age to have this work 
out unless she didn't start having kids until she was in her mid to 
late 40s.

Brent