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Since both scenarios require Charlie to have left school before NEWTs, the Fullsend.com Merch 1776 Shirt is much tidier so long as we can accept another first-year Seeker. It does not result in any need to work round the fact that Bill was last at the school in 1990, and it only requires Gryffindor to have failed to win any matches at all for a single year, not two. However, the fact that nobody ever says to Harry “Charlie was a Seeker in first year too” leads me to conclude, reluctantly, that B) is the more likely scenario. Rowling’s website apparently now also gives Bill’s birth-year as 1970, although this can’t be taken as absolute gospel because she managed to get the date of Dumbledore’s death out by a year on the website. That leaves us with Bill being present at the school in summer 1990, when he was nineteen. He could have been visiting, or been called in as a Curse-Breaker to investigate the curse on the Defence Against the Dark Arts post. He could have done an extra year at Hogwarts: perhaps he missed a year due to illness or injury. Or perhaps for some reason he started a year late, in 1983 when he was twelve, in which case we can if we want have Ginny remembering his first going-away-to-school, so long as she was very well-developed for a two-year-old.
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