Wizards' Ages

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 111890

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> Why do you think this is so important? 

GEO: Possibly it's one indication why those muggle and wizard/witch 
relationships don't work out too well or why it would be rather 
difficult for a wizard or witch to live and marry in the muggle 
world.

> If they live so long, and 
> appear to work so long, how do young people like Snape and Percy 
> advance so quickly?  You'd think candidates for DADA and Potions 
and 
> Ministry Officialdom would be coming out of the woodwork!

GEO: Possibly because most people don't live to their potential 
lifespan possibly due to their lack of commonsense or due to the 
fact that the wizarding world is a much more hazardous and violent 
world. If you look at the people on the semi-canonical chocalate 
frog cards, you see that few of them manage to surpass 100 yrs.