New Wizard of the month on JKR website and her amasing math skills ;)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 177601

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Harry Potter
> (1980 - )
> The Boy Who Lived, only known survivor of the Avada Kedavra curse 
> and conqueror of Lord Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle. Harry 
> Potter joined the reshuffled Auror Department under Kingsley 
> Shacklebolt at age 17, rising to become Head of said department in 
> 2007.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> So, I had been saying all along and will continue to do so - that 
> JKR multiple math inconsistencies do not bother me one bit.... 
> Unless it will majorly put me out of the story.
> 
> And I am sitting here and blinking. I was pretty sure that epilogue 
> is set up in 2007. Does it mean that Harry fathered his oldest at 
> 15??????? OR is epilogue set up later and I confused myself?
> 
> I have a suspicion that my math skills are much worse than JKR's

Geoff:
I'm not entirely sure it is Maths skills which are at fault!

Harry turned 17 very close to the beginning of DH and I reckon that 
the defeat of Voldemort took the action well into the following year 
of 1998. I rather doubt that Harry joined the Aurors on the following 
day so I suspect he must have been at least 18 before that happened.

We have already calculated that the events of the epilogue occur in
the summer of 2017 when Harry is 27.