Ages

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Lyn J. Mangiameli" <kumayama at e...> wrote:
> 
> First. Dorea, presumably Harry's Grandmother, dies very very 
> young (57) by WW standards. 
> Why and/or how? 
> JKR, I believe, has said there was nothing remarkable about the 
> grandparents, but to die so young is remarkable. 

Quite.
Such a pity that there was nothing remarkable about it.
When Jo told us that they'd died young, comparatively speaking, and
not long before Harry was whelped, plus (IIRC) Vernon's parents also
popped their clogs at approximately the same time - well, it got an
old conspiracy theorist very excited indeed. Voldy going for all three
generations of Potters, and a very good reason why Petunia would
hate magic and why Vernon would fear it.

And then she ruins it by saying it wasn't anything remarkable.
Unfair, I calls it.
The least she could have done was pretended, you know - strung
it out a bit, played coy, enigmatic, been a bit ambiguous.
Still, I don't have to believe her if I don't want to.

Kneasy