Lifespans?... Molly and Hagrid

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No: HPFGUIDX 131631

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, heather the buzzard
<tankgirl73 at s...> wrote:
> Alisha:
> 
> >>I'm curious as to what makes you place Molly between Hagrid and 
> >>McGonagall.  I've always seen her as younger than Hagrid.  Could you 
> >>clarify your reasoning for that?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >bboyminn:
> >
> >Hagrid was 13 fifty years ago when the Chamber was opened. That makes
> >him 63 during 'Chamber of Secrets'. 
> >
> >Again in CoS, Molly comments on OG the Gamekeeper before Hagrid. That
> >makes it appear as if Molly was in school before Hagrid; although, it
> >is possible that their Hogwarts careers overlapped; 
> >
> 
> heather now:
> Ah, but we don't know when Hagrid became gamekeeper, do we?  I doubt 
> that he got the job straight after being expelled, at age 13.
> 
> Besides which, doesn't Hagrid say that DD got him the job?  And DD 
> wasn't headmaster until much later.  I think DD became HM just around 
> the time that MWPP started at Hogwarts, because of the way Lupin 
> explained that his parents had been worried that he wouldn't be able to 
> go to Hogwarts (after being bit at age 9, IIRC) until DD became HM,
then 
> things became OK. 

Neri:
There's a little peace of canon that actually supports this view. Tom
Riddle, while bragging about framing Hagrid in the Chamber of Secrets,
says:

(CoS, Ch. 17 p. 312 US)
"Only the Transfiguration teacher, Dumbledore, seemed to think Hagrid
was innocent. He convinced Dippet to keep him and train him as gamekeeper"

This "train him as gamekeeper" seems to suggest a period of
apprenticeship with Ogg. This means the Weasleys can be 60 or even 50
years old.

Neri