Dumbledore and Flamel (WAS: Dumbledore's addition to the P/S or S/S)

[erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48461

GulPlum wrote:

> The card talks of Dumbledore's "work on *alchemy* [my emphasis] 
> with his partner, Nicolas Flamel". 

Now me:

The card does make me wonder about two things:  (1) what alchemy work 
Dumbledore and Flamel might have done together and (2) what other 
projects Dumbledore and Flamel may have worked together on (since 
they are cited as "partners").  Since JKR rarely throws out such 
interesting tidbits without following-up on them later, I wonder if 
the answers will emerge in later books.

GulPlum again:
 
> The Stone was Flamel's, not Dumbledore's to destroy. Whilst he 
> assures Harry that it "has been destroyed", there is of course 
> space for speculation that it actually wasn't. My own feelings are 
> that it was. 

Me again:

It is interesting that rumors that Flamel and his wife were still 
alive, sustained by the Elixir of Life, surfaced in the 1700s.  So 
perhaps Flamel's immortality is a question that we will always be 
left to ponder.

~Phyllis