[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Sirius and his mother--ages

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No: HPFGUIDX 64521

Dans un e-mail daté du 26/06/2003 22:45:39 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), 
kellyglessner at hotmail.com a écrit :

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Theodore Harvey" 
> <theodore_harvey at h...> wrote:
> I thought I'd mention a picky detail about 
> >Sirius and his mother that bothered me.  We know from various 
> >clues that Sirius is a fairly young man--the Lexicon estimates b. 
> >1960, so 35-36 in book 5.  OoP describes his mother, who died 
> >about ten years ago (i.e. c. 1985), as an old woman.  But if Sirius 
> >was really only about 25 when his mother died, how could she 
> >have been as old as the description of her portrait would imply? 
> >Are witches capable of having children at a much later age than 
> >Muggles?  I just wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this.
> 
> Actually my thought on this would be that repeatedly JKR 
> characterizes Lupin, Sirius, Snape as looking old and worn and 
> haggard - as if they appear much older than they are.  It could just 
> be that time is not kind to the Black family and that Mrs. Black, 
> despite her age, just looks old and raggedy.  I'm sure there is some 
> scientific explanation for my theory that could be tied into 
> purebloods and with a diminished population; inbreeding and recessive 
> genes and all that.  
> 
> FK
> 

Brainstrom! It's a Dorian Gray type of portrait! It grew old after the 
portraitee (???) 's death with all her mischief!

Well, there you go, another hommage to literature...

:)

Cristina



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