[ SECRET POST #5980 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5980 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it is fair to say that wizards can live for hundreds of years, they do live longer which is true, but at most it is maybe an extra few decades. And it isn't extra decades of being young, it is extra decades of being old men and old women. To borrow from Terry Pratchett, and it is just as true in Potterdom and Discworldverse, magic doesn't keep you young it just lets you be old for longer. The only time we see people getting vastly increased lifespans it is an aberration even by wizard standards. Flamel has the Philosophers Stone, and Tom Riddle has the whole horcrux thing and taking some time off being dead (but not for tax reasons) in the middle of his life. Other wise you just age as normal, and even Dumbledore was topping out at about 150 and described as very old.

They don't get the centuries witches and wizards get in works like Sabrina the Witch, or Bewitched.

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AYRT

I don't think so. That was another way the world opened for Harry upon realizing he wasn't a normal human. For him, and for everyone who didn't already know what a wizard could expect out of life.

I remember wondering if Voldemort's longevity was unusual, and realizing that part actually wasn't. Hagrid is just two years younger than him (a third year when Tom was a fifth year), and the groundskeeper is hardly living an old man's life when Harry meets him! Hagrid is seventy years old when he fights in the battle of Hogwarts, interacts with Harry's children at Hogwarts nineteen years after that. And this is not exceptional. The books are full of people who knew the protagonists' parents as children and were already adults at the time, and they're peppered with people who are a good deal older than that. It gives the world a kind of warmth - the fact that the people in it get to watch multiple generations grow up, and they have about a century of active life to look forward to, if something doesn't kill them prematurely.

Muggles my parents' age ragged each other about being "old" at forty or fifty, because often their bodies declined noticeably from there on and they rarely clear a hundred. Wizards are "old" when they reach a hundred. And that's not even getting into the difference in health expectations.

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Not to detract from your larger point, which is valid, but James and Lily were only 20 when they died. Harry started at Hogwarts 13 years after they graduated. It would frankly be weirder if there weren't a bunch of teachers at the one wizard school in the UK that had them as students. Hell, in the fortyish years that an actual, non-fictional teacher is likely to be working, they can expect to teach their first students' kids and possibly grandkids.

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AYRT

You're quite right.