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

[birdsofshore]

That's really interesting, because my head canon for both Dumbledore and McGonagall is older than that. If wizards and witches live longer, I'd expect someone of 70 to be more like a 50 or 60 year old in Muggle society, and McGonagall definitely is characterised, to me, as an older woman of 70+. Does that make sense?