Age of Majority

[arwengryffin]

No: HPFGUIDX 155480

> Geoff:
> > > <snip> 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:
> > 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? <snip>
>
> Geoff:
> <snip>
> 'Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by
> no later then 31 July.'
> (PS "The Keeper of the Keys" p.43 UK edition)
>
> I don't think that has anything to do with HP's
> birthday. I think it would be a standard procedure
> to set a deadline for replying so that lists,
> registers, dormitories etc. could be organised.


arwengryffin:
This is a small point, but one of the things I find interesting
about the date of Harry's birthday and the cut off date to start
at Hogwarts is that it means Harry is one of the youngest in his
class.  Only those born in August would be younger than Harry in
his year.  Yet, he is clearly a leader.  Hermione, for example,
is 10 months older than Harry.  Its just a point of interest.