I AM being a grown up …

[blamebrampton]

I'm trying to read and comment more on LJ in a bid to support everyone's mission to keep the LJ-based fandom going. I just had a quick skim through a commentary on part of Deathly Hallows and despite the writer raising loads of interesting and a few excellent points, I am now obsessed with one line, and I paraphrase: 'Rowling minimises our experience of the torture of this old man.'

The writer was talking about Xenophilius Lovegood. HE IS MY AGE OR A LITTLE OLDER OR POSSIBLY EVEN YOUNGER!!

I am so filled with righteous indignation! I ride hundreds of kilometres a month! I could do that a week if I didn't have to go to work! I have all my own teeth! In a fight with Snatchers I would probably go down because they are Wizards, but I would go down biting and they would seriously regret their life choices!

Bloody young people today! Where's someone Gen Y or younger so I can patronise them? I bet you can't do long division without electronic assistance! There! That'll show you! Bah!

Excuse me, I require a cup of tea and a good lie down.

*Exits, muttering.*

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I can't really, I'm a big fan of the majority of Gen Y: on the whole, you're a socially engaged and engaging lot. But I must say that when one of you goes bad …

We're never given an age for Lovegood, but most people father children when they are aged between 20 and 40, and Luna is 17 in DH. Since Rowling never draws attention to the fact that he is unusually old for a parent, and OK-ed Rhys Ifans to play him (an actor at the lower end of the expected age range), it's logical to assume that she imagined him as not being one of those rare men who decided that 70 was a good age to have their first child.

[incandescent.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Yes, 70 would have made him an 'old' man. Though he certainly is quirky. :)