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

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 40985

Amanda Geist wrote:

> 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?

The appropriate question would be: How many 11-year old Muggles kids _who 
collect trading cards of those who made strives in medicine_ know who Marie 
Curie is, or what she did?

See - here's the problem with this argument - this asumes that all children are 
collecting these cards, while in reality many children probably aren't. Ron is 
collecting all the wizard cards - he even says (in SS/PS), "I've got about five 
hundred, but I haven't got Agrippa or Ptolemy." I get the impression from this 
that Ron keeps up with the cards, and is trying to collect them all.

I find it hard to believe that a wizard who has worked with Dumbledore in 
Alchemy would not be known in the wizarding world. Unless of course he wasn't 
accomplished at all, which wouldn't explain why he went down in the muggle 
History books.

Katze