How old is Hagrid?

[ashley_1591284]

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From: ashley_1591284
Subject: Re: How old is Hagrid?
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Date: 8/8/00 9:52 pm  (ET)

>What is the difference between Muggle aging and Wizarding aging?Is there
a difference? Dumbledore must be well into his 70s if Hagrid is 63. Also
Dumbledore in SS says his alchemy partner was well over 100 years old
(sorry don't remember exactly)? <

I believe that Dumbledore is well past his 70's. When asked in a
Scholastic interveiw how old he was, Rolwing said only that there is a
considerable difference in the Muggle and Wizarding life-spans. That,
to me, would imply that Dumbledore has already long surpassed the
normal Muggle life-span (about 75 years, on the average). Plus, I get
the impression that Dumbledore wasn't exactly a young man when Hagrid
was a student at Hogwarts. It has been posted before, but here is the
URL of the Scholastic interveiw.
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript.htm

And, I feel that it is imperitive that this clarification be made,
Nicholas Flamel is not just well over 100 years old, he was celebrating
his 665th birthday in SS.

I hope that this helped clear up some of the questions you had on
wizard aging.

Ashley

P.S.- Since some of the other under-18 members have been asking, how
are the grammer and mechanics of the messages that I have posted so far?