[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's hair, Lupin's first class

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 29255


--- Maria <maryblue67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi!! I haven't posted much lately... this list is so
> huge
> that it can be a bit overwhelming!!!

    I quite agree. :)

> I was reading the CS again the other day, and i
> noticed
> something i hadn't seen before. Perhaps it's been
> discussed
> already...
> 
> When Harry goes into Tom Riddle's diary, he sees
> Dumbledore, who talks to Tom. At first, Harry
> doesn't
> recognise him, since he looks much younger and has
> auburn
> hair. However: Dumbledore is, at the time the books
> happen,
> 150 years old. 50 years earlier, when Tom Riddle
> attended
> Hogwarts, he was 100 years old. Wouldn't he have
> white, or
> at list grey hair, at 100?

   Not necessarily, especially as at 150 he's only
begining to look really old. I wonder how long Wizards
live? A thought; Dumbledore's battle with that earlier
Dark Wizard (Grindel-something?) took place in 1945
maybe that's what turned his hair white.


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