[HPforGrownups] McGonagall's Age

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 33

Catlady Rita 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. 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.

If that's the case, then Dumbledore defeated  the dark wizard Grindelwald
when he was only around 30, and I think that's probably a little young to
have enough power to defeat such a strong wizard - I've always thought of
him as being born in 1900, which would make him 90 or so in the beginning of
the series


 


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