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[nny]

I WAS SO RIGHT ABOUT THE WEASLEY BOYS!

*does the dance of the smug*

Charlie two years older than Percy, Bill two years older than Charlie.

I *knew* they weren't *that* much older. *g*

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Now I'll go read the rest of it. *g*

Comments

[ygrane.livejournal.com]

*smooch*

Hi, sweetie, I'm home. ^_^

*hugs*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

LADY!

I got me my postcard, and it's now proudly displayed on my door 'cos it's *just* *that* *cool*. I'll be on YM! tonight, and you have to tell me all about everything! :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Crap, that wrecks half my fanfics *sigh* Gonna have to rewrite several bits of Stealing Harry....

[rubyrosered.livejournal.com]

LOL

I agree that it makes more sense for them to be younger, except if that's the case, why wasn't Charlie still in school when Ron and Harry started?

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Except that can't really be right, because if Charlie were two years older than Percy, he'd still have been at Hogwarts during Harry and Ron's first year.

I think she messed it up.

I think you're right.

[anoddplace.livejournal.com]

She did precede the answer with, "Uh-oh, Maths!" or some such indicator that this isn't her specialty subject. Plus, I seem to recall running across another discussion of the Weasleys' relative ages somewhere else, before this interview... so I don't think you're the only one boggling. :D

Re: I think you're right.

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Hell, I'm impressed she can remember all their names, with the millions of HPverse bits of trivia she must have in her head. =)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Um... couldn't he be two and a half years older, or something? My sister's only a year and a half older than me, and she's two school years above...

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Still doesn't really work, though, cause Charlie's got have been out of school for at least one full year before PS. Fred: "we haven't won the Quidditch Cup since Charlie left." (PS 114) That implies that not only has Charlie left school, he didn't just leave the June before; Gryffindor has to have lost the QC at least once since Charlie's been gone.

I suppose if you finagled it just-exactly-right, it might be 2 years and something like 11 months difference, but that seems overly complicated to me when you could just say "yeah, Charlie is 3/4 years older than Percy."

*shrugs* I dunno. JKR admitted she's not a math whiz before answering the question (I feel her pain) and she said in an earlier question that she didn't have her notebooks or anything in front of her.