Question on wizards aging.
Matt
hpfanmatt at gmx.net
Wed Sep 29 17:48:06 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 114161
--- "sad1199" wrote:
> Dumbledore is the oldest wizard alive that we know of....
>[W]e don't hear of any other o-o-o-old wizards just, by
> Muggle standards, mainly middle aged wizards.
--- Finwitch responded:
> Hard to say, but the professor who examined Dumbledore
> (and thus MUST be older than Dumbledore (to have passed
> Hogwarts before Dumbledore), most probably something
> like 170-200, considering the high status even then!)
> says that 'he did things with a wand I had never seen
> before'....
Griselda Marchbanks. Tofty, who does Harry's charms exam, is
described as even older. Ollivander also seems to be pretty old.
Hagrid is 67 or 68 by the end of OP (more than middle-aged by Muggle
standards). McGonagall is "not exactly young" (OP ch. 25), although I
do not recall a specific indication of her age.
-- Matt
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