[HPforGrownups] Gran's age (Was: Wizard ages)

[manawydan]

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From: "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Gran's age (Was: Wizard ages)


> While there's no question that Madam Marchbanks is ancient, I don't
> get the same impression of Neville's gran (Augusta Longbottom), who
> seems quite spry and is certainly still formidable. If Neville's
> incapacitated parents are in their late thirties like Lupin and Snape
> or their early forties like Lucius Malfoy, most likely Gran is in her
> seventies or eighties.
>
> My impression is that she's a contemporary of Minerva McGonagall, who
> knows that Augusta failed her Charms OWL. It seems to me that only a
> student in the same year (or at least the same House) would know that
> information--unless McGonagall was Augusta's teacher, which does not
> seem probable. (If Augusta was a classmate of McGonagall's, her time
> at Hogwarts would overlapped Tom Riddle's, FWIW.)

Though it could equally be that McG would have had access to the school
records and could easily have looked that up. The Longbottoms aren't
mentioned in any of the Marauders/Young Snape passages which could mean that
they are a lot older.

Neville's parents could easily be in their early 100s. If Augusta was 90-100
when Frank was born, then she could certainly be Griselda's contemporary, or
sufficiently close for them to have had a very long-standing friendship.

hwyl

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