[HPforGrownups] Foreshadowing clues in CoS

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No: HPFGUIDX 53046

(Note: I sent this on Wed. and it got lost, so sorry that it's a bit late!)

Corinth said:

> Maria touched on something I've been pondering for a while.  According
> to the rough timeline, Voldemort is about 60 now.  He graduated from
> Hogwarts about 50 years ago and reappeared on the scene as Evil
> Overlord perhaps 20 years before the books.  Which leaves a 
> good 30
> years unaccounted for. 

Me-
  When I first read that my mind *screamed* "Hold up!" If Voldie is 60 and graduated 50 years ago, then he graduated when he was 10?  That's not right.  But I've remembered reading that at various sites.  So I did the math (took a while), and he would be 67 in CoS.   So I can see how someone might remember that as 60, instead of rounding up to 70.
Let's see, McGonagall's a "sprightly 70", IIRC.  I know there was some question here as to whether she knew Tom Riddle when she was at Hogwarts.  So *my* question is does anyone know what year Rowling meant when she gave us that age?  How many books were out when that interview happened?
Rowling also said that the teachers' love lives were off-limits (not the exact wording, I know).  Which listie has made an acronym for a McGonagall/Riddle ship?  Cuz I want it!

~Katey, who is on her last Sunday of being 18.  Yay!