[HPforGrownups] Flamel/Dumbledore/Phoenix

[Glenda and Danny Millgate]

No: HPFGUIDX 22249

>But the 
chocolate frog card says that Dumbledore is "particularly famous 
for...his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel."  Having 
attained the epitome of Alchemical pursuits over 350 years earlier, 
what kind of work was left for Dumbledore to assist Flamel with? 
            
     
OK, so I'm going to take this Dumbledore/Phoenix thing and put it togehter with Flamel to really stretch. Actually I could well be taking this into the realms of fanfic plot.

Quick run down in case there is one person left who doesnt get the life cycle of the phoenix...in standard mythology, a phoenix is born, grows old, and instead of dying, spontaneously combusts (more or less), and then is reborn from the ashes. In a sense immortal.       
    
Lets say that Dumbledore is an Animagus, and he's a phoenix. What if he is able to harness the power of the phoenix, and as he gets very old in his human form, he transforms into an animagus and goes through the transformation of the phoenix...and hence is reborn young, but with his powers and knowledge intact? That would mean he could have been doing all sorts of things for years.

Of course, the hole in this story is that I guess the wizarding world might have noticed if he suddenly turned up a couple of hundred years younger...but I just really liked the idea. Gives him lots of extra time to muck around with Flamel...anyone want to bend this to fit? Its 11pm and school holidays, and my brain is fried...is there an electrician in the house?

Glenda


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