James's age

[ronnie]

No: HPFGUIDX 173452

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pattiemgsybb" <mac_tire at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67@>
> wrote:
> > Did anyone besides me notice that James Potter is referred to
> > in OoP as being fifteen, the same age as Harry, in SWM, but
> > that all of the characters whose ages we know would actually
> > have been sixteen in that scene?
> <SNIP>

> mac_tire:
> That, or the fact that JKR is notoriously weak
> at arithmetic. 

ronnie here:

And speaking of JK's notoriously weak arithmetic skills, I've been 
wondering for some time now about a similar question, but thought it 
might be too picky and obsessional to put here: 

The Potters had a son when they were 20 years old - young, but 
acceptable. However, in OotP, Lupin says to Molly Weasley after the 
boggart scene: "... but we're much better off than we were last time. 
You weren't in the Order then. you don't understand". I always 
thought that meant she was younger than the Mauraders, and was 
underage, but how could thad be? She couldn't possibly have 5 
successfull pregnancies before the age of 17! (Charlie, Bill, Percy, 
Fred & George, Ron. We know her brothers were at the order (the 
Prewetts) - so how come she wasn't??