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<DIV><FONT face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size=4>Along these
lines....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size=4>If Dumbledore and McGonagall are
"ancient" (lol), couldn't the quote from GoF that Voldemort took 11 years
growing in power be applied to two 18 year old graduates, and make them
both 29 when they died? This is saying that they both had occupations
where they fought Voldemort, and he killed them for that reason.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size=4>More musings.
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<DIV><FONT face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size=4>:)<BR>Dee</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=catlady@wicca.net href="mailto:catlady@wicca.net">Rita Winston</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=HPforGrownups@egroups.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 25, 2000 2:50
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [HPforGrownups] McGonagall's
Age</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Our old Yahoo club said:<BR><BR><In PS, McGonagall is
described as " a rather severe-looking woman" <BR>with her hair drawn into a
tight bun, and as "a tall black-haired <BR>witch". I guess that mention of
black hair makes us think she must be <BR>quite young, but my theory is that
Minerva makes liberal use of the <BR>wizarding equivalent of 'Lady Grecian
2000' to create the illusion of <BR>youth. I wouldn't be surprised if to find
that she was a contemporary <BR>of Albus Dumbledore and, in fact, about
60.><BR><BR>Dummbledore is older than 60: 50 years earlier than CoS he was
<BR>already the (auburn-haired) Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts, so I
<BR>imagine him as having been around 30 at that time, thus around 80 <BR>when
Harry meets him. I don't imagine him being anywhere near as old <BR>as
Nicholas Flamel (but maybe he is, and it was his fight with the <BR>evil
wizard Grindelwald rather than age that turned his hair white), <BR>but I do
imagine that wizards tend to live longer than Muggles, for<BR>an average of
100 years rather than our Muggle 75. Along this line, I <BR>expect that wizard
folk, of any age over 30, tend to look younger <BR>than Muggles of the same
age. McGonagall probably is 60 as you said <BR>(she was Harry's parents'
teacher), but thus would be taken for 40 <BR>or 45 by a
Muggle.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></TT><BR><TT>To unsubscribe from this group,
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