How old is Dumbledore???

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 155198

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> > aussie:
> > if we allow DD to have long life secrets that are unique to 
Flamel's 
> > partner, what about DD's brother? 150 years sounds like an 
acceptable 
> > age for a wizard.
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> Back in Oct 2000 JKR had this to say:
> 
> >>>Question: How old is old in the wizarding world, and how old are 
> Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall?
> J.K. Rowling responds: Dumbledore is a hundred and fifty, and 
Professor 
> McGonagall is a sprightly seventy. Wizards have a much longer life 
> expectancy than Muggles. (Harry hasn't found out about that yet.)<<<
> 
> 
> But if you look at the wizarding cards, or the Black family tree, 
or 
> just look at who is alive in canon and who is considered "old" in 
canon-
> -it doesn't seem like the greater part of the WW lives any longer 
than 
> the Muggles do.
> 

AmanitaMuscaria now: I guess the population would have been skewed by 
GrindelWar and VoldyWar1. There may also be a natural progression - 
we have some evidence of this where Bagman is first a Beater, then 
works in the Ministry. Perhaps as wizardfolk get older, they move 
into more contemplative occupations where we (from Harry's POV) don't 
meet them, Dumbledore being an exception?

snipsnip
> Better yet, 
> why did JKR say that wizards have longer life spans? 
> 

AmanitaMuscaria now: This may be a subconscious artefact from JKR's 
mum dying young.