Slughorn's age when taking Felix Felicis potion

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 134794

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maggy Shannon 
<maggyshannon at c...> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has considered that the age at which Professor 
Slug took the Felix Felicis potion might be a clue?
> 
> At the bottom of page 187 (US edition) Slughorn says he took the 
potion at age 24 and at age 57.  The precision seems to call 
attention to itself.
> 
> The two occasions are approximately 28 years apart. Voldemort fell 
ca. 1981, and going by JKR's statement that Snape was "about 36" when 
the series opens (1991), his date of birth would be ca. 1955.  This 
would also be close to the birth year of the Maurauders,  who we know 
were in Snape's year in school.
> 
> The gap between the birth of Snape and the Maurauders and the fall 
of Voldemort roughtly corresponds to the gap between Slughorn's two 
uses of Felix Felicis.
> 
> Since we know from the memory of telling Riddle about horcruxes 
that Slughorne will lie, can it be possible that he lies when he says 
that the days he took Felix Felicis were normal, ordinary days?  Can 
the ages at which Slughorne took the potion be a clue?
> 
> Pax,
> 
> Maggy
> Macon,  Georgia, US



It would never have happened.  Had Slughorn taken the potion a second 
time at the age of 57 in 1981, it would mean that he was born in 
1924, making him a contemporary of Voldemort (who was born in the 
late twenties to early thirties).  If that were true, Slughorn could 
not have been his professor, as he is shown in the Pensieve.

--azriona