[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore and Fannel (Was: Splitting Hairs)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 8134

About alchemy, and what Dumbledore was doing with Nicolas Flamel. Alchemy was not
primarily the search for a way to turn lead into gold. While that was a byproduct,
it was also an allegory for the transmutation of the alchemist. The processes and
steps of alchemical research were intended as a search for truth, goodness, and
self-improvement. By the time you can turn lead into gold, you're at a stage where
you know that really doesn't matter.

Sooo, it seems eminently logical to me that Dumbledore, clearly an individual who
is interested in self-improvement and development, would seek Flamel, who achieved
the Stone, to learn from, and ultimately to work with.

Good theory? Whatcha think?

--Amanda, who used to date a guy whose SCA persona was an alchemist

Snuffles MacGoo wrote:

> Kimberly:"My pet 'I wonder' for the moment is - what was Dumbledore's
> role in Flamel's alchemy research?  According to my admittedly muggle
> calculations, if Dumbledore is really 150, then Flamel was already 524
> when he was born, which seems to indicate (unless wizard life
> expectancies are even longer than I thought) that he must already have
> been tippling a certain elixer.  So what would there be left for
> Dumbledore to do?"
>
> Jim: Perhaps Dumbledore was his protoge, his research assistant.
>
> But Flannel still had - somehow -  to get to 524. And JKR appears to be
> indicating that AD is getting old and tired at 150. I can see the extended life
> thing - but I doubt that it takes one to 524. (and its just occurred to me this
> would make Flannel born around the time of NHNick - spooky eh?)
>
> Storm
>
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