[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 320

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No: HPFGUIDX 6788

John Walton said:

<< 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.) >>

Although it dismisses the possibility of a Hagrid/McGonagall relationship, it places her unnervingly close to the age of Tom Riddle.

Ellie