Shingleton and his year group

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 139386

"potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> wrote:

> Shingleton is on the Chocolate Frog cards, so anyone who cared to pay 
> attention would already know about him. What's pretty amazing is
> that 
> he would most likely have been in the same year as the Marauders.
> I'm 
> basing this on Snape and Lupin listed as born in 1959/60 and Black, 
> Potter and Evans listed as 1960 according to the Lexicon.
> 
> He's an inventor. Well, with James and Sirius being the brightest
> of 
> their year, Lily being such a prodigy at potions and Severus being so 
> well versed in Dark Arts and inventing his own spells
.that was
> one 
> heck of a class!  (So, OK, he could have been a year ahead of them.)

zgirnius:
You know, I was bothered by that at first. But then it occurred to 
me...isn't Hogwarts the only game in town? If you're a wizard/witch 
born in England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, basically, you go to 
Hogwarts, or you don't go to magical school at all (OK, some really 
wealthy families might send their kids out to Durmstrang, or wherever, 
but not that many, I would imagine). A RL institution like Harvard 
likes to brag they are educating the future leaders of society, but 
they know they are missing quite a few. But Hogwarts really is getting 
most of them!


--zgirnius, who nearly choked on her own snack while reading over 
Potioncat's Snape/Shingleton speculations, definitely worth a glance in 
post #139369...