Adalbert Waffling (1899-1981)

[dk59us]

No: HPFGUIDX 90079

OK, here is an odd coincidence (at least I thought so) from the back
of a wizard card.  I wouldn't pay it much attention except that it
appears that JKR wrote the texts for the cards and at least some folk
consider them part of canon. 

Anyway, the text is short, so here it is:

    "Adalbert Waffling was born in 1899 and died in 1981.  This famous
     thinker wrote all about magic.  Every modern wizard and witch has
     learned from his writings."

Waffling wrote Magical Theory, which is on the required list of books
for First-Years (PS Canadian pb, Chapter 5, p. 52).

So what, one may well ask?  Well, Waffling was 82 when he died,
certainly a respectable enough age, but it seems that the lifespan of
wizards may be somewhat longer than that of muggles.  At least for
Dumbledore...

A prominent wizard, respected author.  And he died in 1981, which if I
read the canonical evidence correctly, was the height of Voldemort's
first ascendancy--until October 31 at Godric's Hollow. The card
doesn't list the cause of death.  Was Adalbert Waffling one of those
about whom Hagrid said, "'Course some stood up to him--an' he killed
'em." (PS Can.pb, p. 45)?  Or did Voldemort think there was something
to be learned from Waffling, something not in his published works?

Probably a coincidence, but who knows?

Eustace_Scrubb