Discussion: Aging in the Wizarding World

[hpgoldenage_mod]

Time for our first discussion post. :)

What does canon tell us about aging in the wizarding world and what is your own head canon on the topic? Feel free to cite canon examples as well as reference fanworks, perhaps a favorite fic that matches your head canon or made you see aging in a whole new way.

Comments

[sdkshelly.livejournal.com]

I always had the same impression somehow--about magical strength directly relating to age, but I have no idea where I got this impression. I always wondered too about Dumbledore's age--JKR clearly changed her mind about him and I know she's kind of weak on numbers regardless, but there was also that business with the Philosopher's Stone. Didn't he use it as well? Or am I completely misremembering? But that could sort of take him out of the running as far as using him as an example for how wizards and witches age.

[torino10154]

I don't think he used it himself.

Also, random aside, I think she also changed how old Minerva is maybe in the Pottermore update about her. I know initially her birthdate was closer to Tom Riddle's and now it's about ten years later. If she was 70 in the 90's, then she was born in the 20's. Now it's listed as 1935.