Is Dumbledore right in the head?

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 178

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Neil Ward <neilward at d...> wrote:

> I get the impression that Dumbledore is going to become 
> increasingly unpredictable as he heads for senility.

*DO* Great Wizards get senile? The magic inside them, that I imagine 
gives them an iron constitution while costing them sex and family 
ties, that destroys them swiftly and surely if they don't mature in 
personality, with self-control and absence of denial, a lot faster 
than most people, might do something about that. Keep the mind 
functioning as long as the body does? Make the body die (of old age 
or of magical accident?) as soon as the mind is more than a touch 
gone? Make the magic power go as the mind goes? The senile old wizard 
napping by the fire can no longer even warm up his tea by tapping it 
with his wand -- but doesn't mind, because he can no longer remember 
that he used to be able to.