Protecting Students

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 189476



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> Another thing that occurs to me is how much =older= Dumbledore is than
> Snape.  Whether you peg his age as 150 or a mere 115, he was still
> born in the 19th century, when even Muggles had a much different
> attitude to risk (for children or anyone else) than they did by the
> late 20th century.
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> --Margaret Dean
>   <margdean56 at ...>

I suspect that JKR didn't really think this out. There are a lot of contradictions in the course of the series. Even in OOP there was at least one person, one of the examiners, who remembered Dumbledore as an OWL student, so how old would SHE have had to be? Then he's already teaching at Hogwarts in the 40s when the young Tom Riddle is a student there, but I got the impression, in DH, that he was fairly young at that time. There's nothing that gives you an exact timeline for DD and his family, but I just couldn't believe he was quite as old as JKR tells you in the interviews.

Sue Bursztynski
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