[HPforGrownups] Re: About DD and Nicholas Flamel

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 69291

Monglane said:

> 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.

Nicholas Flamel also figures in one of this summer's best selling novels:
The Da Vinci Code. One of my favorite quotes from this book is from a
conversation between the protagonist and his book editor about the Holy
Grail:

"These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history,
especially when the history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all
time."

Faukman's eyes went side. "Don't tell me that Harry Potter is actually about
the Holy Grail."

"I was referring to the Bible."

Faukman cringed. "I knew that."