Who Could Kill Dumbledore?

[summerdazeno1]

No: HPFGUIDX 75021

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jakedjensen" <jakejensen at h...> 
wrote:

> 
> His ages suggests he[Dumbledore] is using some sort of magical 
device to extend 
> his life. (150+)  A device which he may have been forced to destroy 
> (PS/SS).  It is possible that he, like Nicolas Flamel, is living on 
a 
> small remainder of elixer (just enough to get his affairs in 
order).  
> Speaking of which, does anyone else think Nicolas Flamel is 
> important?  We get a lot of random information about him (where he 
> lives, his age, name of his wife).  Anyone have any interesting 
> theories about him?

There actually was a 14th century alchemist by the name of Nicholas 
Flamel.  According to Llewellyn's Witches Calendar 2003,  On January 
17, 1382 Nicholas Flamel and his wife Perenella claimed to have 
discovered the secret of transmutation when gold appeared in a vessel.

This isn't really relevant to the plot, but we do at least know where 
JKR got the idea for the character. 

-Summer
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