[HPforGrownups] Re: Molly and Arthur's Age

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 174568

        --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
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> How old do we think the Weasley parents are? Who would have been their 
> contemporaries at school? 
> 
> Katie
>
  Carol replied:
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I think, though, that we're supposed to believe that the Weasleys are
about eight years older than Snape and the Marauders and Lily,
finishing school the year before that group enrolled at Hogwarts. 
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I recommend a combination of willing suspension of disbelief and
Double-think.

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Carol, who thinks that JKR weaves a powerful story and would rather
examine theme and character than plotholes and inconsistencies

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  Katie:
  Thanks for the reply! I agree that JKR's story is remarkable and profound, and I often ignore the threads that have to do with little things like age, moon cycles, and the such. I just like to have a basic understanding of who, where, and how as the background for the more in depth and philosophical stuff. So, it helps me to assume M and A are approx. 8 years older than Lily, James, Snape and the others. I can file that information away and just know its there. And that helps me to be able to move on to other (more interesting)  things!
  Katie



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