Wizarding Ages

[coriolan_cmc2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 41531

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...> 
wrote:
> I am a *bad Catlady* for forgetting to include this in my previous 
> post.
> 
> I have mentioned before my theory of wizarding age, according to 
> which wizarding folk age the same as Muggles until age 20 (nice 
> round number) or 21 (magically important number) and then half the 
> rate of Muggles.
> 
> I mentioned it on FictionAlley Park and the extraordinarily 
brilliant 
> and insightful Minerva McTabby explained her theory, which is 
> harder to compute than mine but seems more accurate:
> 
> Minerva McTabby wrote:
> 
> << wizarding folk mature the same as Muggles until their mid-20s.
> From then, they age at one-third the rate of Muggles until around 
> the age of 100. After that, they age at half the rate of Muggles. 
And 
> it's as rare for wizard folk to reach the age of 200 as it is for 
> Muggles to reach 100. >>
> 
>
Only 10 years or so have elapsed when Harry views the "Pensieve" 
trials, but this is enough time to some of the characters to have 
visibly aged (Bagman and Skeeter. most notably). This doesn't 
necessarily invalidate this theory: Bagman may have let himself go 
physically after he stopped playing Quidditch, and some people do age 
noticably in just a three-four year span.

    - CMC