[HPforGrownups] McGonagall's Age and how it relates to James and Lily

[Denise]

No: HPFGUIDX 32

Along these lines....

If Dumbledore and McGonagall are "ancient" (lol), couldn't the quote from GoF that Voldemort took 11 years growing in power be applied to two 18 year old graduates, and make them both 29 when they died?  This is saying that they both had occupations where they fought Voldemort, and he killed them for that reason.

More musings.    
:)
Dee
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rita Winston 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 2:50 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] McGonagall's Age


  Our old Yahoo club said:

  <In PS, McGonagall is described as " a rather severe-looking woman" 
  with her hair drawn into a tight bun, and as "a tall black-haired 
  witch". I guess that mention of black hair makes us think she must be 
  quite young, but my theory is that Minerva makes liberal use of the 
  wizarding equivalent of 'Lady Grecian 2000' to create the illusion of 
  youth. I wouldn't be surprised if to find that she was a contemporary 
  of Albus Dumbledore and, in fact, about 60.>

  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. I don't imagine him being anywhere near as old 
  as Nicholas Flamel (but maybe he is, and it was his fight with the 
  evil wizard Grindelwald rather than age that turned his hair white), 
  but I do imagine that wizards tend to live longer than Muggles, for
  an average of 100 years rather than our Muggle 75. Along this line, I 
  expect that wizard folk, of any age over 30, tend to look younger 
  than Muggles of the same age. McGonagall probably is 60 as you said 
  (she was Harry's parents' teacher), but thus would be taken for 40 
  or 45 by a Muggle.






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