QUESTIONABLE MATHS

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 174794

sudeeel said:

"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."

In a Leaky Cauldron interview from July 16, 2005 Rowling said this about
Grindelwald:

"JKR: Come on then, remind me. Is he dead?
ES: Yeah, is he dead?
JKR: Yeah, he is.
ES: Is he important?
JKR: [regretful] Ohhh...
JKR: I'm going to tell you as much as I told someone earlier who asked me.
You know Owen who won the [UK television] competition to interview me? He
asked about Grindelwald [pronounced "Grindelvald" HMM.]. He said, "Is it
coincidence that he died in 1945," and I said no. It amuses me to make
allusions to things that were happening in the Muggle world, so my feeling
would be that while there's a global Muggle war going on, there's also a
global wizarding war going on."

The HP-Lexicon shows Grindelwald's birth as 1842 - two years younger than
Dumbledore.

So Grindelwald was 103 the first time he died (in 1945) and 156 when he died
at LV's hand in DH.

CathyD