Tonks's age: A possible solution RE: [the_old_crowd] Re: Snape the Half-Blood Pr

[Eileen Rebstock]

> > Kathy W, as good at maths as JKR is.

I'm quite as bad, as you're seeing. Which is why I use family trees
extensively for my fictional characters and refer to them often. I even
do them with the same genealogy software I use for my own real-life
family tree nowadays.

Fanfic is such a double whammy. This HP thing used to drive me nuts, and
now I'm dabbling in Narnia fanfic and C.S. Lewis is pretty much as bad
at math as JKR. Actually, maybe worse.

> 
> Anne:
> I'm with Kathy -- Harry would never have noticed her.

I wasn't wondering about Harry noticing Tonks. I was wondering why Tonks
doesn't already know *him*, after everyone at Hogwarts spent a good deal
of time staring at him at first. But as you point out latre, it does
seem she has to be seven years older to Harry.

> Snape was born in 1959 or 1960 (based on a chat question).  

I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't the fact to throw out. Like the
other infamous age given in a chat: the Weasley eldest two's ages, it
doesn't play very well with the rest of the text and it isn't primary
canon. 

Of course, it's the age we got first, so perhaps people would be less
inclined to let go of it.

Eileen