10 Oldest Characters In The Harry Potter Universe

Age: 355 (now deceased)

Former headmaster of Hogwarts and Dumbledore's predecessor in the post, Armando Dippet lived to an unusually old age, even by wizard standards.

There's no record of him having extended his life by any magical means, so to live a mammoth 355 years is an incredible feat. Born in 1637, Dippet was Hogwarts headmaster in the mid-1900s before passing the torch to Dumbledore, and dying in 1992. During his tenure, Dippet denied Tom Riddle a job at the school, and was responsible for hiring staff members like Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall.

He was also present at the school when the Chamber Of Secrets was first opened in the early 1940s, and in the film adaptation of the second novel, we get a quick glimpse of him stood alongside Dumbledore, during the scene where Harry enters the diary and is transported back in time.