Hermione is how old?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Ali" <Ali at z...> wrote:
> 
> Ali crows...
> 
> Hermione was nearly 12 when she arrived at Hogwarts. JKR has 
> confirmed this fact here: 
> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq_view.cfm?id=90

Thank you, Ali, I would eventually have found it when I found time to
re-visit jkr's site, but your announcement led me to it right now, and
then I checked the Lexicon and saw the Holiday artwork on the front
page  http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html which I might overwise
have missed. 

I always thought Hermione was born 1979 because I trusted you Brits
who explained that the cut-off day is always Sept 1, but then it
seemed that JKR had confirmed 1980 because (was it the CoS DVD?)
included a time-line showing Hermione born that year ... I was hoping
the "What's New" on the Lexicon would include some remark on
reconciling these sources, but no, it only suffers over the Weasley ages. 

> Summoning you all to Accio http://www.accio.org.uk

I'd love to go, but the dollar's exchange rate to the pound is not
helpful.