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[Carol]

Cat wrote:

> If I remember correctly (IIRC) from the literary source, Dumbledore met Grindewald just after he graduated from Hogwarts, and they were about the same age, so were about 17-18ish. Then when they dueled in 1945, they would have been late 90-ish. <snip>

Carol responds:
You're right about his age in DH, as zanooda has already explained, but I think you must be thinking of the interviews in which JKR gives Dumbledore's age as 150. I wonder if that age was really 115 mistranscribed as 150 since in DH, he's an older contemporary of Ron's Great Aunt Muriel, who's 107. Also, JKR gives his birth year as 1881 (and his death date, mistakenly, as 1996 rather than 1997--"oh, dear, maths!"). So, assuming that he was born in August or thereabouts, as he must have been if he was still seventeen when he met Grindelwald, he would have been 115 when he died (before his 116th birthday later that year).

So if he's 115 or 116 in the summer of 1997 (taking Harry's sixth year as 1996-97), he would have been a mere 63 or 64 in the summer of 1945, with Grindelwald a year or two younger--two powerful Wizards in their prime. Must have been quite a battle, much like the one between a much older Dumbledore and Voldemort (born, IIRC, December 31, 1926) at age 69 in June 1996.

Carol, who hates math as much as JKR does and may have gotten the numbers wrong even with a calculator