Moody's age

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 19912

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> GF 13: "the aged ex-Auror" (that's Rita Skeeter talking, so take 
with a grain of salt"
> 
> "He's an old friend of Dumbledore's," which admittedly doesn't tell 
us much about his age, and he's retired.  Charlie says "I heard he's 
been getting really paranoid in his old age."  (GF 11)
> 
> He also has gray hair (GF 12).
> 
> JKR could still have toyed with the idea of making Davey Gudgeon 
the DADA prof. and only later decided that the prof. should be an old 
> friend of Dumbledore's.
> 
> Just to nitpick:  Davey Gudgeon =could= be as much as 6 years older 
> than Lupin.  All we know is that their time at school overlapped.  
But he's definitely not an old man. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Ah!  Thank you, Amy-elf.  I ~knew~ there were some descriptives that 
made me think older, just couldn't recall any.  I've just begun my 
(only!) third read of GoF (it's been on loan far too much), and I'm 
only up to the part when Bill and Charlie are having their picnic 
table battles.  You're right about the Davey G. bit, too.  We know 
JKR has it all mapped out, but it's still an organic work.  Perhaps 
when she was preparing to begin GoF, she realized something wasn't 
going to work with DG as the Moody character and had to revise...

Kelley