Nicolas Flamel

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Rowling didn't just make up the name Nicolas Flamel he was a real 
historic figure, he was an alchemist who spent his life looking, 
unsuccessful, for the Philosopher's Stone (not the sorcerer's 
stone!), he even had a wife named Perenelle. The exact date of his 
birth or death is not known but he published his book in 1414, so he 
would be about 656 if he were still around 1n 1991 for the first 
Harry Potter adventure. By the way Michael Myers, the villain of the 
Halloween movies, was also the name of a medieval 
Alchemist.