[HPforGrownups] Wizarding lifespans

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 148693

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From: "hpotter284" <DreamCatcher284 at gmail.com>
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re:news about Black Family Tree/Wizarding lifespans


> If we take Dumbledore and Marchbanks as a guideline for wizard
> lifespans, then the average wizard life should last about 200 years.
> Yet none of the Blacks in the family tree lived anywhere close to that
> long (the oldest seem to have lived for about 80 years or so, which is
> barely above half of Dumbledore's age). So what happened to them? Why
> did all of the members of this distinguished, pureblood family die far
> before their time? Should we go back to the drawing board at

Maybe all that intermarriage shortened their lifespans?

I've just put it down to JKR's admitted problems with doing the numbers, and
dont' pay it a lot of regard.

hwyl

Ffred

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