Dumbledore's age

[severusbook4]

No: HPFGUIDX 78959

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Fred Uloth <prof_uloth at h...> 
wrote:
> 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....


Well, Harry or Ron were asking who the judges were going to be, and 
Hermione replied that the heads of the three schools, because they 
all were injured during the Tourney of 1792, when a cockatrice that 
they were trying to capture went on a rampage.  Not exact but really 
close.  So how am I to read this?  Hermione is(in my take) saying 
all three of the current heads were champions and were injured 
during a task.  It makes sense, DD, Karky, and Maxime would have 
been competitors, not the judges.  Hagrid is now 66 now, since he 
was 13, 50 years ago in book 2. DD was still looking very young at 
that time.  I must admit the wording is strange, but there are not 
many ways to interpret it.  We know DD is over 100, why not over 
200?  This seems to be one of the few clues as to his age.  The high 
amount of deaths and injuries are the reason that the Triwizard was 
stopped in the first place.  So why not some of the last champions 
as the new founders / judges?  Did DD attend Hogwarts and who was 
Head then? Just a thought.

Severus