Noneteen years (WAS Re: What Next for Harry?)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 176763

> Allie:
> 
> I immediately thought JKR was making a little nod to Stephen King 
with 
> her "19 years later," since it seemed such an odd, uneven number.  
> (Why not 20 years later?  Or 15?)  

zgirnius:
For most of DH, Harry is 18. 19 years later, on Sept. 1, the day we are 
shown, he is 37. This is the age Snape, Lupin, and Peter were, and 
Lily, James, and Sirius would have been, had they all been alive in DH.

My thought for why it was 19.