Nicolas Flamel

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 9672

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> eggplant88 at h... wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> An old boyfriend of mine, who was into alchemy, gave me a couple of
> links for information on Nicolas Flamel, which I had posted to the 
list
> a while back. Worthy of note is that honest-to-god alchemists 
(there's
> still a few) think that Flamel may have been one of the only (if 
not the
> only) man to actually achieve the Stone. If I can figure out how, 
I'll
> try to find the message number, if anyone's interested.
> 
> --Amanda

Which goes to show that JKR is brilliant...I love the fact that
Flamel is real,and am more annoyed than ever that they changed PS
to SS...!