[HPforGrownups] Re: YES! The Great Alchemist Debate Solved (sort of)

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 40982

Katze mentioned

> Doesn't Ron collect the wizard card? I think Ron onlyhas a few left to
collect,
> so I think it's fair to say that he's familiar with all the cards that
exist,
> yet he doesn't recognize Flamel's name as being on a wizard. I don't think
> Flamel is a wizard.

A couple points on this thread:

1. Not every prominent/historical witch or wizard necessarily made it onto a
card. It's probably up to the makers of Chocolate Frogs, and the ones *they*
think are prominent. Maybe they personally never really heard of Flamel.
Which leads me to

2. If Flamel isn't on a card, he could still be a wizard and Ron could
legitimately not know about him. How many 11-year-old Muggle kids know who
Marie Curie was, or what she did?

Just for the record, I think Flamel really did die, but that there's a
possibility that his voluntary death contributed to some protective spell, a
la my beloved's theory (see old message, Love as a Spell Component). And he
probably was a wizard.

--Amanda