What were the Malfoys DOING there?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 114112

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > Potioncat:
> > I think Nott,Sr. is older than LV.  Tom Riddle and Minerva 
> > McGonagall are close in age, and McGonagall isn't elderly.  I know 
> > in the RW two people can be the same chronological age yet one 
> could 
> > be "elderly" while the other wouldn't be, but I don't think 70 or 
> so 
> > is elderly in the WW.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> 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? :)

Carol adds:
Yes. Notice that JKR keeps referring to Lupin, who is the same age as
Snape and Black, as "young" or "quite young." And yet their coming of
age is at seventeen, which makes no sense under the circumstances. It
ought to be thirty-three like hobbits (which corresponds to one and a
half times twenty-one; their lifespan is about two/thirds that of
Muggles. Er, Men. Er, humans.)

Carol, who wouldn't mind a wizard's lifespan as long as it came with a
princely income--no teaching adolescents when I'm seventy, thank you!