Flamel

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2736

I think Nicolas Flamel was thrown in for historical texture. I know from
my association with a boyfriend who was into medieval alchemy (via having
an alchemist persona in a historical recreation group) that Flamel is a
historical personage, the only alchemist who's supposed to have actually
created the Stone (which, for you detail-oriented sorts out there, wasn't
a stone, but some sort of liquid, I believe. I think it's a code thing
that it's called a stone; the alchemical texts are very hard to study,
even today, because they were written in very obscure code terms that are
not all understood). Anyway, there's real students of alchemy today who
swear Flamel is still alive. But I doubt he shows up again in the
"Harryverse" (nice coinage, whoever did it--I forget).

--Amanda