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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Catlady Rita wrote</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Dummbledore is older than 60: 50 years earlier than CoS he was </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> already the (auburn-haired) Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts, so I </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> imagine him as having been around 30 at that time, thus around 80 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> when Harry meets him. I don't imagine him being anywhere near as old </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> as Nicholas Flamel (but maybe he is, and it was his fight with the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> evil wizard Grindelwald rather than age that turned his hair white), </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> but I do imagine that wizards tend to live longer than Muggles, for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> an average of 100 years rather than our Muggle 75. Along this line, I </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> expect that wizard folk, of any age over 30, tend to look younger </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> than Muggles of the same age. McGonagall probably is 60 as you said </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> (she was Harry's parents' teacher), but thus would be taken for 40 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> or 45 by a Muggle.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If that's the case, then Dumbledore defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald when he was only around 30, and I think that's probably a little young to have enough power to defeat such a strong wizard - I've always thought of him as being born in 1900, which would make him 90 or so in the beginning of the series</FONT></P>
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