Flamel /Dumbledore

[Grace Saalsaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 45057


bboy_mn comments:

Nicolas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone are just too big in this
story to have their part over and done with. I think they will come
back. I even think we will get to meet Nicolas Flamel, and he will be
instrumental in helping Harry defeat Voldemort. Although Harry may not
know about it until after the fact. This ties in with my death and
resurrection theory.

Of course, I believe that Nicolas Flamel is alive and well. To a
nearly 700 year old man, 'getting your affairs in order' could take 10
or 20 years, maybe more.

Now me....

Good point.  Seems to me that something as significant as what Nicolas
Flamel & Dumbledore accomplished with the Stone could have more written
about them  -  or the implications comes back  in another book.

I've been thinking about this very thing for a few days now and what keeps
popping up in my head are those somewhat subtle observations that Harry
makes about Dumbledore seeming older and more tired,  book after book.
Although Flamel is significantly older, Dumbledore is also old.  Do we
really know how old a witch or wizard lives to be in JKR's world?  Perhaps
Dumbledore is ancient too...older than is normal for a wizard but everyone
accepts it because they know about the work done with Flamel regarding the
Phlospher's stone.  Or, the ww assumes because he is a great and powerful
wizard, that his life span is just longer.

Dumbledore tells Harry that Flamel has enough Elixir to get his affairs in
order.  Perhaps the same could be said for Dumbledore himself.  The stone
has been destroyed and now these two wizards are aging at the normal rate
and Harry notices the aging taking place on Dumbledore.

In that light, I can see Dumbledore dying in a future book.  Not through
battle or an encounter with Voldemort or a DE - but by the process of dying
from old age,  too tired to carry on.

Grace