Dumbledore's age

[Maris]

No: HPFGUIDX 78978

  Hi, I am new here, and wish to respond to this -- albeit with monitoring, I understand!  :-)

  Severus "reading much closer now" Snape 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. 
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  Mine was the same sort of understanding, at first.  At a second read, though, I understood Hermione to be referring to the current Head of each of the respective schools at the time of that particular match.

  "Who are the judges?" Harry asked.
   "Well, the Heads of the participating schools are always on the panel," said Hermione, and everyone looked around at her, rather surprised, "because all three of them were injured during the Tournament of 1792, when a cockatrice the champions were supposed to be catching went on the rampage."  ~~"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

  In support of this conclusion, is the referral to the Headmaster prior to Dumbledore, when Tom Riddle was in the school, and Dumbledore was a Professor (and the school was going to be closed down because of the monster which was loose).  ~~"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

  Snuffles