[HPforGrownups] Re: Nicolas Flamel (again)

[Helen N]

No: HPFGUIDX 22263

*Helen (a.k.a. She Of The Blue Headscarf Thingie <g>) delurks*

Neil: Eek.  Perhaps Nancy Stouffer is really Pernelle Flamel?  No,
that's getting silly.


OK, now I'm scared...



Neil said:  <<Would someone who had striven to discover the secret of
immortality give it up just because Albus Dumbledore was wagging his
finger?>>

Ali said: <<Well, yes...if they've grown tired of living.  Didn't Dumbledore
say something about it being like going to bed after a VERY long day?
Perhaps Nick and his wife were already considering this before Albus
approached them.>>

Neil again: Dumbledore did say that, yes.  I don't disagree with the fact 
that Flamel
may have been bored with living and given up the Stone and eternal life, but
I do question Dumbledore's power to have persuaded Flamel and Perenelle
(apparently it was Pernelle in real life?) to do it.  We only have
Dumbledore's account of this.
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I've had another thought, one that may have been raised before:  Can we be
sure that Nicolas Flamel was a wizard?  If he was just a Muggle alchemist
who worked with Dumbledore that might explain the fact that Dumbledore has
the reputation as the greatest wizard of modern times and that Flamel sat on
his hands while Dumbledore tackled Grindelwald.  It would also explain why
Harry and the others could not find Flamel in any of the books on wizardry
in recent history; they assumed this was because he was 600+ years old, but
it *may* have been because he wasn't a wizard.  Hermione finds a reference
to the alchemist in a dusty old book, but we know that alchemists existed in
the Muggle world.  Perhaps the book failed to note that he was a Muggle?



I don't know exactly why, but I LOVE this idea! It never occured to me that 
Flamel could be a muggle...But wouldn't that then turn around your first 
point, because Dumbledore is a wizard, so he would have power over Mr and 
Mrs Flamel if they were magic-less.

Also, I would quite like to see Voldemort's face if he found out that the 
only known method of becoming imortal was invented by a "mudblood."

Love
Helen
(Who is sorry for the short post, but just loved this idea too much not to 
comment)


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Helmione Nightingranger:
87% obsessed with Harry Potter
Sorted into Gryffindor
Most like Hermione (the phrase "duh" springs to mind!)
Still looking for a wand...
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"The books' US editor, Arthur Levine, translated for the benefit
of benighted Americans British words...he even translated the
first title, from 'philosopher's stone' to 'sorcerer's stone',
apparently on the assumption that Americans have never heard of
alchemy and should be encouraged, instead, to think of Mickey
Mouse in Fantasia." - Wendy Doniger, writing about Harry Potter
in the London Review of Books
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