YES! The Great Alchemist Debate Solved (sort of)

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No: HPFGUIDX 40906

Is an Alchmeist typically a wizard thereby making Flamel a wizard,
some what, by default?

Well, we know Ron need the Agrippa card, and we know he need the
Ptolemy card, and we know Ptolemy was a real person, and we know
Flamel was a real person.

SO WHO WAS AGRIPPA?

Answer- he was an ALCHEMIST and a real Person.

Cornelius Agrippa - AKA: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim,
1486-1535, German mystic and alchemist.

Agrippa of Nettesheim was born of a once-noble family near Cologne,
and studied both medicine and law there, apparently without taking a
degree. In 1503, he assumed the name Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim,
adopting the von to suggest a noble background; three years later, he
established a secret society in Paris devoted to astrology, magic, and
Kabbalah.

Agrippa's wrote on a great many topics, including marriage and
military engineering, but his most important work is the three-volume
De occulta philosophiae (written c. 1510, published 1531), a defense
of "hidden philosophy" or magic, which draws on diverse mystical
traditions -- alchemy, astrology, Kabbalah. A later work, De
incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum (Of the Uncertainty and Vanity
of the Sciences), attacks contemporary scientific theory and practice.

Some believed him to be not only an alchemist but a demonic magician,...

Taken from:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/People/agrippa.html

There seemed to be some implicatin that being an alchemit, eliminated
the possiblility of Flamel also being a wizard.  Given this new
information, I would think the being an alchemit now is likely to
confirm that Flamel was a wizard. 

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