[HPforGrownups] Re: About DD and Nicholas Flamel

[Monglane]

No: HPFGUIDX 69254

  "Missy"  wrote:
  > In interviews, we've been told that DD is around 150 years old.  
  > Nicholas F is over 600 years old.  Yet, one of the things DD is 
  > famous for (according to the chocolate frogs cards) is his work on 
  > Alchemy with NF.  Now- how old was DD when they started this work?  
  > And how did NF live so long before DD came along to help him with 
  > this work?  I've wondered about this for quite a long time, and am 
  > wondering if anyone has an explanation.  Thanks.

  Now Karen

  It is never stated that the work Flamel and Dumbledore did together 
  had anything to do with the Philosophers Stone.  It could have been 
  almost anything.

  I had exactly the same 'discussion' with my boyfriend a couple of 
  days ago.  My question to him was -

  If DD is 150 and NF is 600 what could DD possibly have helped NF with?

  He replied by reminding me that even the greatest scientists etc.. 
  sometimes need a fresh pair of eyes to make their theory's complete 
  (Einstein, as but one example).


I agree with Karen. I wish to add that Nicolas Flamel really did exist and was a noted scholar, teacher and alchemist. One of the houses he owned with his wife Pernelle still exists in Paris. The ground floor has been converted into a restaurant (quite good) and the cellars, which I had the privilege to visit, are extremely interesting.

Monglane