Dumbledore's age

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No: HPFGUIDX 29140

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eccleston at c... wrote:
> 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 c...


I thought i read in an interview that JKR said dumbledore was 140 or 
so. If he is 2000 years old, maybe he is really Godric Gryffindor 
himself!