Character: Minerva McGonagall

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6766

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
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> Character Summary: Professor Minerva McGonagall

> Age: Undetermined, but we guess middle-aged, whatever that is in 
> Wizard Years. The Harry Potter Lexicon reckons 70s.

In one of the on-line chats, someone asked JKR how old is Dumbledore. 
She answered: '150' and went on to explain that wizards live longer 
than Muggles and that McGonagall is 'a sprightly 70'. When I 
previously had thought that wizard folk aged at a rate more similar 
to Muggles, I had thought she was 63. (Like Hagrid, but now we know 
that she was either out of school, or at least an upperclassman 
when Hagrid was in school. That kind of rules out schooldays romance 
between them.) 

Her dress robe is tartan. I keep wondering whether it has a high or 
low neckline.