Dumbledore's age

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Today's Sunday Express has an interview with Robbie Coltrane, in 
> which he states (in the context that she has an extensive backstory 
> for all the characters) that JKR knows what Dumbledore was doing in 
> the 1700s.

Rowling SAID in an interview that Dumbledore is 150 ... she said it 
in two different interviews ... which would make him born in 1840-ish 
and not having been doing ANYTHING in the 1700s... Is that more JKR 
innumeracy?

Dumbledore's about 150 years old... wizards have a longer life 
expectancy than us Muggles, Snape's 35 or 6. 
60% Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:23:38 GMT 
http://www.comicrelief.com/harrysbooks/pages/...  

Dumbledore is a hundred and fifty, and Professor McGonagall is a 
sprightly seventy. Wizards have a much longer life expectancy than 
Muggles. 
50% Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:27:32 GMT 
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript2. 

Thank you, Goatpad!

> 
> The story about Coltrane only being contracted for four 
> movies was recycled, too.

I thought it was FIVE movies. I don't know if the idea of turning 
GoF into *two* movies had been discussed already at the time the 
actors were hired for the first movie.