So messing around with leap years and technicalities around birthdays was a common trope in Victorian comedies - given that Hogwarts letters and prohibitions on underage wizardry are based on birthdays:
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^ Look what Lady did ^
A character who was born on the 29th of February 1852 who only reaches his 11th birthday in 1892 and can only then legally be issued with his wand, gets his Hogwarts letter etc. Or the ministry has CONSTANT problems with the spells that notify them of 'accidental' or underage magic triggering every time he casts a spell, because he's still technically underage - despite the fact he's seen 44 rotations of the sun!
AND/or he can't get his inheritance because it says he must wait until his 18th birthday, which isn't 'technically' until like 1920, when he's 72 and he's salty about it.
AND/or he can't get his inheritance because it says he must wait until his 18th birthday, which isn't 'technically' until like 1920, when he's 72 and he's salty about it.
^ Look what Lady did ^