A Wizard's Age

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No: HPFGUIDX 86843

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jazmyn <jazmyn at p...> wrote:
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> 
> ladyramkin2000 wrote:
> > It is a given that the lives of witches and wizards are 
> > considerably longer than those of muggles.  I was wondering if 
> > someone born into a muggle family ,  who is offered a place at 
> > Hogwarts and, for some reason, refuses it,
 
Jazmyn wrote: 
> I think people are totally misunderstanding WHY wizards live 
> longer. Its not genetics, its magic.  People keep forgetting about 
> the MAGIC! There are potions and spells to extend life and cure 
> most ills that would shorten life. A muggle wife/husband of a 
> wizard would no doubt live longer too as they would have the 
> benefits of magical healing and life extension.
> 
> You would live longer too if you had access to things powerful 
> enough to regrow bones overnight and regenerate cells.  Not to 
> mention things like  the potion made from the Philosopher's stone 
> that can make a person immortal.  Though that one is a lot harder 
> to get without the stone.  There are most likely a lot of life 
> extending potions that don't make you immortal, but just shave a 
> few years off once in a while.

The specifically life-extending potions are possible, I'd imagine --  
perhaps they're also the antidote to overdoses of the aging potions 
the twins (I think they were the ones) used to try to get their names 
into the Goblet. ;) 

And I do agree that much of it is probably the magical medical 
treatment. On the other hand, several things do suggest the 
possibility of wizards' having a certain amount of additional 
sturdiness or resistance to injury -- blunt-force trauma in 
particular -- and it isn't too far-fetched to attribute part of the 
slowed aging to, well, the magic. *g* Meaning the /intrinsic/ magic 
in the person's body in addition to the medical applications of it. 

PK