[HPforGrownups] Longevity and Youth (was Re: Why Voldemort is a fascist..)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 109914

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
>> I've noticed this also. Whatever else it is, the WW is certainly 
>> not the gerontocracy that you might imagine that it would be, 
>> given the greater longevity of wizards 

> A Goldfeesh here:
> JKR (from her 4/2001 Comic Relief Chat-thanks to TLC Quick Quill 
> Quotes) says that: "Dumbledore's about 150 years old... wizards
> have a longer life expectancy than us Muggles, Snape's 35 or 6.'


The next time JKR does some kind of chat or interview I hope this
question comes up.  Because with the exception of Dumbledore and
perhaps McGonagall, most of the other characters seem to be - you'll
pardon the expression - acting their ages.  Does the process slow
down when you hit 60 or so, when every year suddenly becomes two?

Or will we find in Book 6 that Dumbledore has been living on a
dwindly supply of Elixer of Life, like his (presumably by now) late
friend Nicholas Flamel?

Magda


	
		
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