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

[Sali Morris]

No: HPFGUIDX 176820

> > 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.
>
> Jenni from Alabama responds:
>
> When did Harry have another birthday after leaving the Burrow
> and 'hiding out' with Ron and Hermione?

Geoff:
He doesn't. This is either suspect Maths - again! - or not reading canon.

We already know that Harry was 11 in July 1991 and that DH is set during
the academic year 1997/98 when Harry should have been in the Second
Year Sixth had he returned to Hogwarts.

Canon states:
'Yaxley waited but Voldemort did not speak, so he went on. "Dawlish,
the Auror, let slip that Potter will not be moved until the thirtieth, the
night before the boy turns seventeen."'
(DH "The Dark Lord Ascending" p,11 UK edition)

This is in the summer holiday between the HBP year and the next Autumn
term. We know that the Trio were at Godric's Hollow just before Christmas
so the final confrontations were in 1998 before he reached 18.



Sali:

He doesn't turn 18 in DH, but he does have an extra birthday which makes him
37 in the epilogue. At the end of the last chapter he is 17. Plus 19 years
makes him 36 in the summer before the epilogue (early summer 2017?). He then
has a birthday between the exact 19 years on from the end of the last
chapter and the epilogue which takes place September that year.

Sali, who has checked and re-checked her maths but is still terrified of it
being wrong…


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