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

[Sara Ludwig]

No: HPFGUIDX 8138

Good idea, yes Amanda
what is a SCA persona?
catrina
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  Ämne: Re: [HPforGrownups] Dumbledore and Fannel (Was: Splitting Hairs)


  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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