QUESTIONABLE MATHS

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 174789

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sudeeel" <sudeeel at ...> wrote:
>
> In the Scholastic interview on 16 October 2000, JKR 
said, "Dumbledore
> is a hundred and fifty, and Professor McGonagall is a sprightly 
seventy."
> 
> But at Bill & Fleur's wedding, Auntie Muriel says, (DH Am. ed., p.
> 153) "'Give me your chair, I'm a hundred and seven.'"
> 
> And a few paragraphs later she says, "'Before he became so 
respected and respectable and all that tosh, there were some mighty 
funny rumors about Albus!'"
> 
> To me, that implies that she was alive and gossiping when Ariana 
died.
> 
> On the next page she says to "Barry"/Harry (DH Am. ed., p. 154) "It
> all happened years and years before you were even thought of, dear,
> and the truth is that those of us who were alive then never knew 
whatreally happened."
> 
> So, indeed, she *was* alive and probably not much younger than 
Albus, though possibly older, perhaps even considerably older, which 
means DD isn't anywhere near 150. Nor is Grindelwald.

Tonks here:

I noticed that too. I read it and then listened on CD thinking that 
maybe I had been wrong. I came to the conclusion that Aunt Muriel is 
lying about her age.. she was probably a young child at the time...  

and gosh Rowling.. are you THAT bad at math??!!

Tonks