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Post by mcgonagallrocks on Nov 24, 2007 12:48:54 GMT -5
Ok you’re all gonna think I’m crazy for doing this probably but if you stop and think about it doesn't sound AS crazy. I let my aunt borrow my copy of DH right well I wake up this morning and she hands me a paper I have no clue what the thing was so I (well drank coffee first needed to wake up  ) and it’s got a timeline on it right a Harry Potter timeline about DUMBLEDORE! Ok according to the book (page 353) and I quote “Now approaching his eighteenth birthday, Dumbledore left Hogwarts in a blaze of glory…” But then Kendra died forcing Albus to go home and take care of his brother and sister right? Then only a few weeks later he met up with Grindelwald as Bathilda Bagshot said she introduced them. If Dumbledore had defeated Grindelwald five years later in 1945. Albus would have been born around 1923 according to that math. So he’s not as far away from Min in age as we all thought. He was only maybe 1 or 2 years older he wouldn't have been 122ish. |
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Post by pinnacle on Nov 24, 2007 17:39:57 GMT -5
If Dumbledore had defeated Grindelwald five years later? Where'd you get five...?
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Post by mcgonagallrocks on Nov 24, 2007 19:15:15 GMT -5
I don't remember the exact page number right now but I'll find it
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Post by forgottenxstar on Nov 25, 2007 10:27:30 GMT -5
the book said that Dumbledore never refered to the friendship later in life, and that he waited for five years before answering the cries of the wizarding world to go after Grindelward. He allowed Grindelward to cause terror for five years, not that they fought five years after Ariana's death.
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Post by tabbyphoenix on Sept 20, 2008 0:39:35 GMT -5
Hmm, all of you make sense and Im confused. But I think I agree with forgottenxstar.
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Post by MMADfan on Sept 20, 2008 14:58:50 GMT -5
Forgottenxstar is correct.
Remember when Albus went to talk to Tom Riddle at the orphanage? He was old-ish then. You can also reread the passages in CoS regarding the first time the Chamber was opened -- by Riddle, who blamed Hagrid. Albus was old then.
Albus was the Transfiguration teacher at the time that Minerva was in school. Minerva and Tom Riddle are rough contemporaries, and Albus taught both of them at a time when his hair was already turning grey and his beard was very long.
Albus and Minerva are not anywhere near the same generation.
I think it's probably just a case of having read the passage in DH too quickly, or accidentally skipped something.
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Post by Katheryn Mae on Sept 26, 2008 15:06:07 GMT -5
On the Lexicon ... it says Dumbledore was 44 when Minerva was born. So that would make hia birthday about 1881 - 1882. But I don't know ... he seemed older.
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Post by Katheryn Mae on Sept 29, 2008 14:43:16 GMT -5
I say we hold the prty on Mina's birthday! After all it's this Saturday!!!
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Post by tabbyphoenix on Oct 13, 2008 8:40:05 GMT -5
Well 44 is better than 80 isn't it? We should throw a MMAD party for this! I mean, we just reduced 36 years from the age diference acording to the lexicon. I mean JKR said he was 150 and Min was 70, but he was only 114. That's great! How anyone noticed how everything (other than JK who's being ridiculously stubborn) seems to be shaping up in our favour! May the ship sail on! |
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Post by Katheryn Mae on Oct 26, 2008 17:27:07 GMT -5
OMG!! My friend seriously shortened the age distance between MM and AD yesterday night. In the Diary/Memory, Albus has auburn hair...and according to his birthday in 1881 - he would be about 64. Doesn't that seem a little old to have no gray hairs? If you ask me, Albus was in between his twenties and forties...much younger.  |
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) and it’s got a timeline on it right a Harry Potter timeline about DUMBLEDORE! 
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