[HPforGrownups] Is time changing or are people changing in time?

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 111711

Susana wrote:
>By the way, It's not just the vomit flavored Bernie Bott Bean. Did anyone
>else notice that one of the examiners in OotP had examined DD in his
>transfiguration NEWT? If DD is 150, how old is the examiner? 200?

We know, 'cos we've been told, that Dumbledore is around 150. This matches
the age that he appears to be in CoS, without any real need for any time
travelling.

Note (also in CoS) the description of Armando Dippet though. He appears to
be a _lot_ older there than Dumbledore is now. So maybe Dippet and
Marchbanks are evidence that the wizarding lifespan isn't twice the Muggle
one, but three times'.

Suppose Dumbledore was born around 1840. Therefore he's 18 in the late
1850s. We don't know whether the same method of moderating candidates
happened then, perhaps it didn't. Perhaps Marchbanks was Deputy Head then
(Dippet could well have been head) and moderated the exams herself at around
MacGonagall's age of 70. That would mean she was born around 1790, and is
indeed now over 200.

There are of course _enormous_ cultural implications to that.

People in the WW obviously work a lot later in life, and I'm sure there is
no concept of things like a retirement age or old age pensions!

Cheers

Ffred

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