[HPforGrownups] Answers, questions......

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 55519

> The Sparrow <basementgirl74 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a question which has no doubt been raised
> before- In GoF (sorry can't give you exact quote)
> Hermione-I think-says that the heads of the three
> schools would be on the judging panel since they
> were
> alive at the last one in 1794. That was over 200
> years
> ago, yet Dumbledore is only 150. This would also
> make
> Karkaroff and madam Maxine over 200 years old as
> well.
> 

She never says that Dumbledore or the others were
alive then. She simply said that the heads of the
schools were on the judging panel, which means that
the people who were heads of the school two hundred
years ago were on the judging panel. You're misreading
the "they" reference, it seems. Hope this clears it
up!


heidi


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