[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's age

[Fred Uloth]

No: HPFGUIDX 78937

At 03:01 AM 8/27/2003 +0000, severusbook4 wrote:
>I read in a post a few weeks back that JKR (in interview) had said DD's 
>age was around
>150, and since I am re-reading GoF I noticed what Hermione says about the 
>judges.
>Hermione says to H & R "because all three of them were injured in the 
>Tournament of
>1792, when a cokatrice...", if this statement is true (it was in 
>"Hogwarts, A History")
>and the first book took place in 1990, then DD is well over 202 years old, 
>and so are
>Madame Maxine, and Karkaroff.  I don't know if this has been posted and if 
>it has,
>sorry for the repeat.  It seems JKR has a way of contradicting 
>herself.  Thought you
>should know.  Also, I don't know if it could be a red herring of some sort.

OK...If I understand you correctly you are saying that all the current 
judges were injured in 1792. I think you may misunderstand. Hermione is 
reading from a history book that states the three headmasters (from 1792) 
were injured. Remember, DD has only been headmaster for 30-50 years 
(depending on which contentions you go off of...I'm assuming that 50 yrs 
ago Dippet was headmaster so DD wasn't and that DD was headmaster when 
Lupin, who is 40ish, was admitted to Hogwarts).

Anyway, my guess is that you were reading this too carefully and 
misunderstood what was actually being stated....