[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore's Age

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 155072

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><mailto:HPforGrownups%40yahoogroups.com>HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, 
>Laura Lynn Walsh <lwalsh at ...>
>wrote:
>><snip>
>>  Dumbledore is usually considered to be around 180
>>  years old during these stories.
>
>bridge13219:
>I think it's on JKR's website that Dumbledore is 150 years old.
>Either that or I found it on the HPLexicon where they had it from an
>interview of hers.

OK.  So he's 150.  That still doesn't answer my questions.

At 14:04 -0800 06/07/06, Laura Lynn Walsh wrote:
>But if Nicolas Flamel
>is 600 some years, he must have discovered the
>Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone when he was around
>150 years old - or else he would have already been
>dead by the time Dumbledore was born. So, Flamel
>couldn't have been working with Dumbledore on
>the Stone. We have two choices: either Dumbledore
>is as old as Flamel

Which you have said, he is not.

>or they worked on something else
>together.
>
>If DD and Flamel worked on something different,
>what might it have been? It must have been something
>important, as Flamel had most likely been retired by
>the time DD was born, let alone by the time he would
>have been old enough to be a worthy partner. It couldn't
>have been dragon's blood, or that would have been
>written up a bit differently on the card. It must have
>had something to do with alchemy. Anybody know
>more about alchemy's goals other than changing base
>metals to gold?
>
>The thing that makes it unlikely that DD is as old as
>Flamel is that, when we see the younger DD in the
>pensieve, he has auburn hair. If he were as old as
>Flamel, he would have already had white or gray
>hair by then and wouldn't have looked noticeably
>younger.
>
>Sorry if this has been resolved already.
Laura
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