Dumbledore's age

[princesspeaette]

No: HPFGUIDX 78964

Severus:
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>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.



While I'm willing to admit that Dumbledore *may* be over 200 (I 
really doubt it though)  I don't think there's any way Karkaroff 
is/was (depending on whether or not Voldemort's found him yet *weg*) 

When I read that I took it to mean that the people who were the Heads 
of Durmstrang, Beauxbatons, and Hogwarts *at that time* were injured 
by the cockatrice. It would fit with the WW sense of tradition, 
especially surrounding the Triwizard tournament, to make it a 
tradition for the Heads to be judges after that unfortunate incident.

Just a different take on the same information :-)

~Margaret