Splitting Hairs

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 8181

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kimberly " <moongirlk at y...> wrote:
> 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?  

I was under the impression that the work that Dumbledore did with 
'his partner, Nicolas Flamel', was discovering the twelve uses of 
dragon's blood. Return question: how many of those twelve uses were 
already known BEFORE F & D's publication?