Hey Lexicon Steve! McGonagall/Riddle SHIP

[Erin]

No: HPFGUIDX 89983


> Carol:
> I can't check this now because I'm rushed for time, but I think that
> McGonagall is 70, LV is 65, and Hagrid is 62 in GoF. I'm thinking of
> JKR's interviews plus the fifty-year gap between the first and 
second openings of the Chamber of Secrets. (I'm taking fifty years as 
an exact figure based on Hermione's reaction in CoS.) Maybe someone 
who knows the book and interviews inside out can provide links and 
page numbers. <snip>

Erin:

Tom Riddle opened the chamber in his fifth year at Hogwarts, so he 
would have been 15 then.  Add 50 years, and he would have been 65 in 
CoS.  He would then have been 67 in GoF, when McGonagall is 70.  
Hmmm, so I guess that is three years and not two like I thought.  
Still doable, I think.  A three-year age difference wouldn't seem 
like much when you plan to live for 150... or in Tom's case, 
forever...

Erin