Ages? and Dumbledore's Mirror

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 7879

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Stephanie Becvar" 
<StephBecvar at h...> wrote:

> I have a question, i read somewhere, maybe on this list maybe not,
> that someone assumed sirius, lupin, snape, etc. were about 43.  

My computation (in msg #4518) that came out that Sirius, Lupin, and 
Snape turn 43 during the year from Sept 2000 to August 2001.  Thus, 
in GoF in the 1994-95 school year, they were 6 years younger, which 
is 37, which is pretty close to your assumption.

> I know this all sounds incredibly muddled, but it is 4:28 in the
> morning, and i was awoken by a dream in which a man with a human 
> head and a snake body was telling me he would kill me like my 
> silly muggle mother(

Oh, scarey. I hope you had some chocolate!

> always assumed (snip) Mrs. Weasley more in her late 40's, which
> makes sense seeing as how Bill is about 23.  

>From msg #4518: "Also, by this timeline, Bill would be 29 and Charlie 
27 during GoF. I don't think they seemed quite that old. Perhaps the 
people who were speculating that wizarding folk's longer life 
expectancy means they age more slowly all along were kind of right. 
(snip) perhaps they age like Muggles to age 21 and then age more 
slowly. How does that affect magic-Muggle mixed marriages? Does the 
Muggle spouse get to drink anti-aging potion as long as the marriage 
lasts, and thus live as long as wizarding folk? Or is the slow aging  
genetically inborn rather than a spell, and thus the Muggle spouse    
would get old and decrepit while the wizarding spouse is still young 
and strong.... "

Further example of wizards aging more slowly: JKR told us in a chat 
that Dumbledore is 150 years old(+/- for difference between Now and 
Book). That would make him 100 (+/-) '50 years ago' in Tom Riddle's 
School Days. At which time, his hair was long but auburn.

Which reminds me, in GoF, Molly Weasley reminisced of 'the gamekeeper 
before Hagrid, a man named Ogg'. Someone posted the question, if 
Hagrid became gamekeeper '50 years ago' (in Tom Riddle's School Days) 
and Molly remembers the gamekeeper before Hagrid, does that mean that 
she is at least 62 years old (i.e. having been at least a first-year 
at Hogwarts in the year during which Hagrid was expelled)? At that 
time, people on the list decided that Hagrid must have been made 
*Assistant Gamekeeper* when he was expelled at age 13, and become 
Gamekeeper later, upon Ogg's retirement. However, the new information 
about the wizard folks lifespan (JKR said 'and McGonagall is a 
sprightly 70') suggests that Molly Weasley might indeed be at least 
62, maybe 70 like McGonagall.