Letters

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 184228

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ruth" <ruth.powell at ...> wrote:
>
> In message
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/20884
> rowanbrookt@ wrote:
> > > Would it have come on my 11th birthday (the 16th of
> > > October) and then I would wait until September the
> > > next year before I went to Hogwarts. Or would the
> > > letter arrive in the summer just before September.

Ruth:
> In most English schools the cut off date is August 31st,
> any student entering 1st year would have to be 11 by
> August 31st or sometime in late August at any rate.

Geoff:
The 31st  is the /mandatory/ cut-off date. So, in modern 
terminology, as you say, a student will have to be 11 by 
that date to enter Year 7 (the old First Year).