[HPforGrownups] What were the Malfoys DOING there?

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 113750

Alla wrote:
>Me neither actually. After JKR mentioned that wizards life span is
>much longer than us, muggles, I never consider McGonagall to be an
>elderly woman. Middle-aged, maybe, but definitely not elderly. I
>always consider her 70 to be like our 40s maybe.
>
>Come to think about it, Sirius and Snape are so VERY YOUNG under our
>standards. Maybe that is why they still did not get rid of their
>childish behaviour? :)

Compare the descriptions of the characters who _do_ appear to be extremely
elderly - Dippet in CoS and The Examiners (Marchbanks, Tofty...) in OoP.
McGonagall may well be equivalent to someone even younger than their 40s,
maybe (at 70) to be someone at the end of the first third of their lives.

I keep thinking back to LoTR, where hobbits don't come of age until they are
33: wizards come of age at just over half of that figure, but I'd agree that
it doesn't necessarily confer maturity.

Cheers

Ffred

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