Dumbledore's age

[eccleston at clara.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 29138

There's a reference this evening on the BBC news website to Richard 
Harris stating that Dumbledore is 2000 years old. I wondered what he 
based that on and whether he knew something we didn't. Another 
example of the Philosophers Stone, perhaps? Here's the URL: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1651000/165
1390.stm#top

Steve Eccleston

eccleston at clara.co.uk