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Voldemort was 71 when Harry Potter defeated him

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For an evil wizard who desperately split his soul into seven pieces just to avoid dying, he really didn't make it that far. The Dark Lord was a ripe seventy-one years old when a teenager finally vaporized him at the Battle of Hogwarts. All that murder, racism, and snake-petting just to barely reach the average life expectancy of a muggle in the 1990s.

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