And while I was browsing through established lore, I came across two more inconsistencies (separate posts, cause separate topics.).
How is the wizarding world able to hide the fact that their average lifespan GREATLY exceeds the average lifespan of muggles? According to the wiki, the average lifespan of a wizard was 137,75 years in 1995 (and women in the UK had an, on average, 6 year longer lifespan than men, so for witches, it’d be ~143,75 years). That’s just about 65,75 years longer than a muggle (almost DOUBLE) and just about 21,5 years LONGER than the longest recorded muggle (assuming that Mrs. Calment wasn’t secretly a witch XD). And remember, this is THE AVERAGE, not the record itself. HOW exactly are wizards and witches supposed to explain to their muggle neighbours, agencies, offices, institutions etc. that they’re older than the record holder? Oo Do they just stop visiting the muggle world once they reach an age when they should, realistically, be long since dead? Do they constantly lie? Do they forge their documents/birth certifications? Do they have two sets of them, one for the muggle world and one for the wizarding world?
Seems overly complicated to me. x,x
