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 Post subject: Re: Just how old are they?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 2:03 pm 
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As of Deathly Hallows, Hagrid would have been about 68 years old.
In Chamber of Secrets, it is stated that Hagrid was in his third year (about 13 years old) fifty years ago. Which would make him 63 during Harry's 2nd year.
Voldemort would have been a few years older than Hagrid, meaning that he died in his early seventies.


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 Post subject: Re: Just how old are they?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 2:57 pm 
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HermioneDanger wrote:
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Wow, McGonagall at only 46 during the first book? I always thought she'd be older than Hagrid. That's so strange picturing McGonagall younger than my mom when I've been picturing her as 70-something Maggie Smith for years now! :lol:

Well this is when Harry is one so by the time he gets to school she would be 56.


True, but look at her in the first movie. She looks so much older than 46 and I thought Maggie Smith was perfectly cast so I obviously had the same vision for her as they did. So goes against my imagination, haha. It's jarring.

Hagrid being older than McGonagall just doesn't seem right to me.

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 Post subject: Re: Just how old are they?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:14 pm 
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Mischief Managed wrote:
Hagrid being older than McGonagall just doesn't seem right to me.


Alas it's true. I found it hard to believe that Hagrid was older than McGonagall as well, so I went some researching. According to Harry Potter Wiki, Hagrid was born on December 6th, 1928 and McGonagall was born October 4th, 1935.

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 Post subject: Re: Just how old are they?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 4:10 pm 

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We know wizards live longer than Muggles (hence Dumbledore being well over 100 when he died), so certain people seeming younger than they really are should not be uncommon; it's the stage of their overall life they are in.

What about Harry's kids? We know Teddy is 19 at the time of the epilouge; I would guess Victoire is 17, as James Sirius says Teddy has "come to see her off". Al, of course, is 11, as is Rose; and Lily Luna (and I think Hugo, too) is 9. I think James Sirius is about 13, that just seems like the right age (plus, it makes it two years in between each new Potter kid!) But what about Molly and Arthur's other grandchildren, Victoire's brothers (One of them is Louis and I forgot the other!), Molly and Lucy, Roxanne and Fred (that would be Bill, Percy, and George's kids, in order!)

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