What if...you do magic when you're 15?

[Irene Matteucci]

No: HPFGUIDX 177427

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
>
> So, a new question has popped into my head as I was rereading PS/SS
for the fiftieth time...
>
> What if, like Neville, you don't show any signs of being magical
> until you are older, but unlike Neville, you aren't eight...but
> eighteen. Or even just older than 11 - what happens then? Do you
> start Hogwarts as a 15 year old in first year? Do you not get that
> chance, and you just have to learn magic on your own (which seems
> unbelievably dangerous)?
<snip>

As I understand it, all magical children are listed in a book at
Hogwarts the day they are born. No one probably knows who's in this
book but the Headmaster - so Neville's family would not have known that
he was listed until he got the letter. So, even if a witch or wizard
did not show signs of magic at a young age, Hogwarts would know that it
was there and offer them a place at the school at age 11.

Irene