Population - ages - SHIP: Ron/Harry - new magical character

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 12624

Amy:"Re: ages and all these casting arguments, I take back something I 
wrote recently, about Lupin being maybe 40 at the outside in order 
to be perceived by Harry as young-looking.  I keep forgetting about 
the wizard lifespan.  If McGonagall looks middle-aged at 70, the 
Marauders might well be in their 50's by now and still look like 
youngish adults (30's, to us Muggles)."

There are  some numbers to work with concerning the Marauders' ages. 
Harry is eleven when he comes to Hogwarts. His parents were killed ten 
years previously.  Lily and James were married (probably very soon) 
after they left Hogwarts, as Aunt Petunia resentfully informs Harry:

"Then she met that Potter at school and they left and got married and
had you, and of course I knew you'd be just the same, just as strange,
just as -- as -- abnormal -- and then, if you please, she went and got
herself blown up and we got landed with you!"

 ...and Aunt Petunia  and her sister were obviously 
contemporaries; Petunia wouldn't enjoy a wizard lifespan, so Lily and 
James didn't wait an inordinate amount of time to get married after 
leaving school). Dudley's the same age as Harry, after all. If Lily 
and James waited until they were 30 before having Harry - and that's a 
generous waiting period - then they would have been 40 at the time 
Harry entered Hogwarts. Their classmates would of course be about the 
same.