Lifespans?... Wizard, Muggle, & Phoenix

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 131641

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> The really interesting question re lifespans is, when exactly does
> the aging process slow down?  Because everyone under the age of, 
say, Arthur Weasley (who's about 50 yrs old, I think, based on 
Charlie's and Bill's ages) acts like their muggle equivalents.  Does 
it happen when you hit 60?  Does every year suddenly become two 
years?  Or does your metabolism suddenly slow down?
> 
> Because if it's as simple as 1 wizard year = 2 muggle years, then
> witches would have babies until they were 80!  


Tonks:
Is it that time slows down? Maybe it speeds up. By that I mean when 
you are young time is slow, so a year last a long, long time. But as 
you get older the year moves faster. So once a wizard is say 80 
years old time goes faster for them. This would mean that time is 
normal for a 30 year old and a 50 year old, but for an 80+ year old 
they live twice as fast and age faster.  Or so it seems.  That is 
the only way I can see the difference between Muggles and Wizards. 
The Muggles sense time moving faster but age the same. The Wizards 
sense time moving faster and somehow move along with it after age 80.
Well this is almost as confusing as TT. ;-)

Tonks_op