Molly and Arthur's Age

[jenanydot]

No: HPFGUIDX 174690

 
> Lisa:
> 
> Katie, check out the timeline on the Harry Potter Lexicon; they have 
> calculated all these dates.  There's also another thread about this 
> somewhere here -- I think it's been determined that the Weasley
parents would've been in their 70s ... making them contemporaries of Tom 
> Riddle, actually!


The Lexicon also lists Molly's first year at Hogwarts as being circa 1961.

Arthur's maternal grandfather was born in 1884.  Now, while it IS
possible that both his grandfather and his mother had children at very
young ages...we don't really know how many children either of them
had, and (this is entirely speculation on my part), I've always viewed
Arthur as the youngest in his family.  So, UNLESS both his mother and
grandfather did all their procreating while very young, this puts
Arthur being born sometime in the latter half of the 1940's.  This is
all mainly just my personal speculation, so I can't use it as very
strong evidence to back up this argument.

However, we know that Molly and Arthur eloped during Voldemort's
original rise to power.  The Lexicon lists their elopement as being in
1969.  While it is technically possible that they eloped as
middle-aged people...it doesn't seem probable at all.  Elopements are
generally reserved for the younger generation.

All in all, there's no real way of knowing for certain until Rowling
tells us, herself.  However, I personally don't believe that the
evidence for them being older than in their mid-forties is very
substantial, especially since we have plenty of evidence that Rowling
is horrible at making her own timelines add up when it comes to little
details like this.  IMHO, it's a stretch to try to make Molly and
Arthur any older than 50.

~Mandy