Absurdly young age for marriage..

[maidne]

No: HPFGUIDX 34143

You're right, of course, but consider people's life expectancy in 
relation to the ages they married, and the life expectancy of 
wizards.  People of 18 or 20 would seem to me to be viewed as much 
more mature when they have an overall life expectancy of say 50 than 
when they have an expectancy of 200 or so years.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Terri Lyn Layman" <terrilyn at a...> wrote:
> I have seen a few people say that they think James and Lilly 
married too
> young...
> 
> But, really... ask yourself this: "What age were my parents when 
they
> married?"
> 
> The current (1990) statistical age for marriage is 25 for women, 
and 27 for
> men. source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/95facts/fs_4312s.htm  
In 1996,
> I got married at 21, which
> in retrospect was "an absurdly young age".  However, back in 1972, 
my
> parents married when
> they were 22.  Their parents married at the age of 18 (give or 
take), and
> even further back Laura
> Ingalls Wilder (another fine female author), got married at 17 
(according to
> the TV series).  While
> discussing literary females, the fictional Juliet was 14 and 
beginning to be
> considerd an "Old Maid".
> 
> Now, if we are to assume that Harry at this point is 14 (just a 
year younger
> than my nephew),  I see
> it as completely plausible that his parents may have married when 
they were
> in their late teens to
> early 20's