It sure does! He was contemporaneous with Hagrid, we know that much.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Emily - Jul 11, 2007 9:58:10 pm PDT #3094 of 28195
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Aims - Jul 12, 2007 3:08:58 am PDT #3095 of 28195
Shit's all sorts of different now.
In HPB, Dumbeldore posited that Voldemort was wandering to places hither and tither, learning more of the Dark Arts, making Horcruxes, finding artifacts that belonged to the Hogwart's founders, and gathering followers. He spent a small amount of time at ... that store in Knockturn Alley before taking off with Hufflepuff's cup and the locket from that one witch's house.
Kind of like Jesus' missing years, but without the John Prine song about him becoming a mechanic.
Dana - Jul 12, 2007 3:39:16 am PDT #3096 of 28195
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
50 years is correct, I think. In Chamber of Secrets, we learn that it's been 50 years since the chamber was opened and Hagrid was expelled.
Toddson - Jul 12, 2007 3:40:02 am PDT #3097 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Although I'm liking the idea of Voldemort as a mechanic ... I think he may have worked on my parents' car when I was a kid.
Hil R. - Jul 12, 2007 4:20:08 am PDT #3098 of 28195
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Thanks. I reread a bit further in HBP last night after I posted that.
So that would make Voldemort somewhere around 70 years old, and Hagrid a few years younger? Which would make Dumbledore and Slughorn probably somewhere around 100?
Aims - Jul 12, 2007 4:23:43 am PDT #3099 of 28195
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Something like that.
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2007 5:28:24 am PDT #3100 of 28195
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I started out by loaning her a copy of Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty because someone recommended it here once upon a time, way upstream. Maybe it was AmyLiz?
Possibly! I adored it, but Teppy read it, too.
LOVE. I'm dying for the third one to be released, but I just got a delivery from B&N yesterday with 2 books that should keep me happy. All y'all may have heard of the books -- a romance called Room Service and a book about vampire people.... t /dork
Amy - Jul 12, 2007 6:17:51 am PDT #3101 of 28195
Because books.
I just got a delivery from B&N yesterday with 2 books that should keep me happy. All y'all may have heard of the books -- a romance called Room Service and a book about vampire people....
::blushes at pimpage::
I just picked up my Vampire People copy yesterday! Had to restrain myself from gushing at the girl who cashed me out about knowing the author.
Kathy A - Jul 12, 2007 6:59:23 am PDT #3102 of 28195
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
AmyLiz, I was working at B&N last night and looked on the shelves for you, but we don't have any in stock! I think I'll order a few books and see if I can put at least one of them on the shelves.
I was pimping Vampire People to a customer last night who seemed intrigued by it but had to take her mom home--I'm hoping that she'll come back and pick it up!
Which would make Dumbledore and Slughorn probably somewhere around 100?
Wasn't Dumbledore's age identified in Sorceror's Stone as 151 years?
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2007 7:14:40 am PDT #3103 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
When I went to B&N to buy the book, I looked in Film/TV, Essays, Cultural Studies, Memoirs, and basically everywhere else I thought it would be.
Turns out, it was in Humor.