Elixir of life

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 74824

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "biggladolaf" 
<biggladolaf at y...> wrote:
> Nicholas Flamel was a muggle. He was not mentioned in any of the 
> books about famous wizards that the trio looked through. Also, he 
was 
> not on a chocolate frog card, but was mentioned on Dumbledore's.
> Olaf

Actually, the types of library books the Trio looked through are 
listed in PS/SS ch. 12: _Great_Wizards_of_the_Twentieth_Century_, 
_Notable_Magical_Names_of_Our_Time_, 
_Important_Modern_Magical_Discoveries_, and 
A__Study_of_Recent_Developments_in_Wizardry_, and, as Ron comments 
in the next chapter, "He's not exactly recent if he's six hundred 
and sixty-five, is he?"

They'd been looking for Flamel in books about recent magical 
research, which don't cover the time of the discovery of the 
Philosopher's Stone.

Nicholas Flamel is an alchemist.  That's Magic; therefore he's a 
wizard.  And how would we know he hasn't got his own card?  On their 
first journey on the Hogwarts Express, Ron tells Harry he's got 
about five hundred famous witches and wizards cards, so we can't 
*nearly* have heard of all of them -- how many doubles would you 
expect Ron to keep?  

Annemehr
who is finding it a walk in the park to look things up in PS/SS 
after the frustration of trying to track things down in OoP...