Thought of this last night...

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 9690

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, mschub at y... wrote:
> On the back of the wizard card, it says that Dumbledore is known 
> for "...his work on alchemy with his partner Nicholas Flamel." 
> (Forgive me if the specifics are off, I'm going from memory.) Now, 
> Flamel is 650-some-odd years old. Dumbledore, we know, is around 
150. 
> We also know that wizards live longer than humans, but not THAT 
much 
> (I always got the impression that they lived to be about 200). What 
> I'm getting at is that Flamel had to perfect the SS/PS around 200 
> years before Dumbledore was even BORN in order for him to still be 
> alive. How does that make them partners?

They were partners in other random alchemic works (eg. the discovery 
of the 12 uses of dragons blood). Their partnership obviously didn't 
begin until long after Flamel created the stone on his own.




Dai