Under age magic - just wondering?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 188332

Carol earlier:
> > I happen to agree with you though not necessarily with regard to this example. Even in SS/PS, we have the Charlie Weasley problem and the Missing Twenty-four hours, ...
> > 
> > Marianne:
> > 
> > Again. ???  The missing 24 hours???  Charlie Weasley problem????
> > 
> > Sorry I came on this list halfway through DH so I missed a lot of the discussions.
> >
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> There is a missing 24 hours between when Harry's parents are 
> killed and when Harry was dropped off at the Dursley on Privet
> Drive. Where was Harry during that time? Who was taking care 
> of him? <snip>

Carol responds:
More simply, McGonagall waits for about twenty-four hours in cat form for DD and Hagrid to show up. Why didn't they drop Baby Harry off within an hour or two of his parents' murder (which the whole WW seems to have known about by early morning of November 1, yet neither DD nor Hagrid arrives until after the Dursleys have gone to bed that night).

bboyminn:
> When referring to Quidditch, people at the school keep referring> to how good Charlie Weasley was, yet the time line on his time at Hogwarts doesn't quite add up. In one sense, it seems as if he has been gone from the school for a long while. In another sense, it seems as if he left only a couple years ago. So, it is not clear when he was at school. <snip>

Carol responds:

More precisely, Gryffindor supposedly hasn't won a Quidditch match for seven years as of SS/PS (and again, seven years as of PoA!), yet the "legendary Charlie Weasley" who "could have played for England" was Gryffindor's Seeker for several years, perhaps as many as six, and one of the Twins, IIRC, says in SS/PS, "We haven't won since Charlie left."

All well and good if Charlie is considerably older than his next brother, Percy, and has been out of school for seven years as of SS/PS, but JKR has Bill, who is two years older than Charlie, remark in GoF that he's only been out of Hogwarts for five years, and JKR said in an interview that Charlie was two years older than Percy, which she later changed to three years when someone pointed out that he'd have been at Hogwarts the previous year (when Harry and Ron were ten) if that were the case.

So either Charlie is about nine years older than Percy (and Bill is eleven years older) or the stint as Seeker of "the legendary Charlie Weasley" exactly coincides with the seven years that Gryffindor *lost* the Quidditch Cup to Slytherin.

Essentially, JKR doesn't seem to realize that she needs to add seven years to the age she's calculated for Charlie for the two sets of fictional facts to match up.

Carol, who won't even get into the ages of the Weasley parents, where JKR is also inconsistent