Dumbledore's age

Mon Mar 3 00:54:55 UTC 2003

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David <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.

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston) <catlady at w...>" <catlady at w...> wrote: 
> 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?

Could be, but that would be REALLY off, even for her.  Although I 
wouldn't trust JKR to balance her own checkbook (hey, she probably 
has a slew of accountants now to handle that) I doubt she would make 
that big a mistake about Dumbledore.  It could be that Coltrane 
misheard her; she may have said "eighteen-hundreds" to him (during 
which Albus Dumbledore would have been alive for about sixty years) 
but he may have HEARD "eighteenth century," which would be the 
seventeen-hundreds.  Loads of people get mixed up about this.  Or it 
could have been the other way around--SHE could have 
SAID "eighteenth century" in reference to this when she meant to 
have "eighteen-hundreds" come out of her mouth, and Coltrane 
probably didn't know about the interview in which she gave 
Dumbledore's age.  Either way, I think this can probably be chalked 
up to a slip of the tongue or a simple miscommunication.

--Barb

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