[HPforGrownups] How old is Dumbledore??

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No: HPFGUIDX 45886

I know that this is not only off topic, but short; however, HPFGU seems a 
little quiet so I hope I'll be forgiven ...

At 23:37 28/10/02 +0000, Steve wrote:

>Ananova- (which is consider a pretty reliable news source)

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Please note that Ananova is *not* a news source.  It is a news digest - 
everything on Ananova is republished from other news outlets (mainly 
British newspapers). The Ananova people are actually quite naughty, because 
they never, ever, acknowledge the source.

Every time someone mentions an Ananova story, my first reaction is to look 
for the source article... I never consider anything on Ananova to be 
properly reliable because it's usually a very incomplete story.

As for castigating the press for not researching Dumbledore's age, we may 
as well castigate them for most things they write on most subjects, as 
current journalistic standards seem to be somewhere in the gutter, if not 
lower. :-)