Age of Majority

[bridge13219]

No: HPFGUIDX 155273

Geoff:
> > If I might be infuriatingly, nastily and pedantically pedantic,
> > the cut-off date for admission to a specific school year in the
> > UK is 31st August, so he isn't a single age throughout each
> > school year, so there. :-)

Kemper now:
> Geoff, you weren't nasty or pedantic, but you were infuriatingly
> unclear.
>
> Are you saying that Harry wasn't the same whole-number age from the
> ever-Monday September 1 to June 30 of each year he's attended
> Hogwarts?
>
> I don't get it.  American it down for me.  Please.
> :-D
>
> Kemper, agreeing with Carol that Harry is 11 throughout the SCHOOL
> year of PS and that he'll be 17 throughout the SCHOOL year in the
> upcoming book whether he's actually in school or not.


Bridge13219:
I blame it on lack of coffee, but I was unclear as well.  About the
UK school-year thing.  Besides, in PS/SS didn't it say Harry had to
respond by 31st July?  And that's why Dumbledore sent Hagrid?

bridge13219, trying not to look as dim as I feel.