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

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 8307

Snuffles MacGoo wrote:

> I finally decided that
> Flamel (the spelling isn't a mistake i looked it up and that's how it is
> spelled)  must had made the stone but was still working in alchemy, I believe
> that there is more to alchemy than the actually making of the stone but deals
> with how the magic goes to work through the stone and other such things that
> deal with the stone.  Albus could have been helping Famel to understand the
> stone further, maybe Flamel creating the stone was part fluke.

Achieving the Stone is not a fluke. The processes are intricate and complex and there
is no way it could be an accident. But the study of alchemy is neverending--achieving
the Stone is a by-product of a very advanced alchemist. So, yes, Flamel was
undoubtedly still studying the minutiae of alchemical mysteries when Dumbledore was
working with him.

--Amanda