McGonagall's Age

[Flying Ford Anglia]

No: HPFGUIDX 25

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
 
> Dummbledore is older than 60: 50 years earlier than CoS he was 
> already the (auburn-haired) Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts, so 
> I  imagine him as having been around 30 at that time, thus around 
> 80 when Harry meets him. 

It was me that rashly claimed that McGonagall might be a contemporary 
of Dumbledore's, and I've since realised that Dumbo *must* be 
considerably older than her - even as old as 90.  

As someone else commented, McGonagall and Hagrid are about the same 
age.  Wouldn't that put them at Hogwarts at the same time, in a sort 
of 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' scenario?  I bet they've had sex!  Now, 
there's a fanfic screaming to be written.  

Rita, I'm like you - I want to hang on to my Yahoo handle, as it took 
me many minutes to dream up something that Yahoo would accept, and 
I've grown used to it.  That's why I've changed my name by deed poll 
to Flying Ford Anglia and relegated 'Neil Ward' to nickname status. 

Neil 

PS - I'm off to Washington, DC next Tuesday and probably won't be 
able or fit to post a thing until Friday.