Age

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188628

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, WILL GUSTIN <Will.Gustin at ...> wrote:

Marianne:
> ><snip> When was the Order formed? Was there mixture of
> > ages in the Order? Were some of the OOP people were
> > very young.  Am I correct in thinking that Lupin and
> > Sirus, and possibility even Peter, was in the Order
> > until things went to Hell? Or was the Order formed
> > after Sirius landed in Azkaban and Peter spent a lot
> > of years as a rat. <snip>

Roe:
> Just an answer to one part .... I'm pretty sure I saw in a
> movie and assumed I remembered from the book.  There was a
> picture of members of the Order, which included Neville's
> parents as well as young versions of Lupin and Sirius, as
> well as Harry's parents, so the Order had formed some time
> before Harry's parents had been killed and Sirius sent to
> Azkaban.

Geoff:
Once more unto the book, dear friends, once more,,,,
(with apologies to William)

`Moody took a swig from his hipflask, his electric-blue eye 
staringsideways at Harry.

"Come here. I've got something that might interest you," he 
said. From an inner pocket of his robes, he pulled a very 
tattered old wizarding photograph.

"Original Order of the Phoenix," growled Moody. "found it 
last night when I was looking for my spare Invisibility Cloak, 
seeing as Podmore hasn't had the manners to return my best 
one
 thought people might like to see it."

Harry took the photograph. A small crowd of people. some 
waving at him, others lifting their glasses, looked back up at 
him.

"There's me," said Moody
   
"And there's Dumbledore 
beside me, Dedalus Diggle on the other side
 That's Frank and 
Alice Longbottom-"

Harry's stomach, already uncomfortable, clenched as he looked 
at Alice Longbottom; he knew her round, friendly face very well, 
even though he had never met her, because she was the image 
of her son, Neville.

"-poor devils," growled Moody. "Better dead than what happened 
to them
   
there's Lupin, obviously
    
Sturgis Podmore, 
blimey, he looks young
   
Hagrid, of course, looks exactly the 
same as ever
 Elphias Doge, you've met him
   
That's 
Dumbledore's brother Aberforth, only time I ever met him, strange 
bloke
   
Sirius, when he still had short hair,,, and
 there you 
go, thought that would interest you!"

Harry's heart turned over. His mother and father were beaming 
at him, sitting on either side of a small, watery-eyed man whom 
Harry recognised at once as Wormtail, the one who had betrayed 
his parents' whereabouts to Voldemort and so helped to bring 
about their deaths.'
(OOTP "The Woes of Mrs. Weasley" pp157-59 UK edition)

To shorten the quote, where there are double sets of full stops, 
I have omitted some of the names which are not vital to the story.

In the film version of OOTP, the photograph is shown to Harry by
Sirius while they  are in the waiting room at Kings Cross railway 
station.