[HPforGrownups] Re: Request (Harry live or die?).

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 159482

On 10/11/06, Pavan Sharma <kronosred at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  JKR has never said that wizards don't die of old age.
> She's said that they live longer than muggles do but
> that they're ultimately as mortal everyone else;

"In interviews made around the time of the release of HBP Rowling
stated her contention that wizards normally live until some magical
ailment carries them off. Which is to say that they rarely die of old
age alone." was stated in
http://www.redhen-publications.com/WizPopulation.html - i can't find
the direct quote but assumed that there was in fact a real quote that
was referring to.

> otherwise, what would be the point of the Philosopher's Stone?

Immunity to such diseases? After all, Quirrel!Voldemort wanted it, and
neither of them was dying from old age.

-- 
Random832