[HPforGrownups] ? on Dumbledore's real age?

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 54035

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jessica wrote:

> I am on my third time around in the Potters series. Something hit me. 
> I know the time line states that he is probably 150 years old. But 
> how can this be, if he help Nicholas Flamel with the Stone? Flamel is 
> over 650 years old. I am I missing something. I do not think he would 
> use the stone on himself,because the stone was distroyed. But still 
> confused. Hope you can help, Thanks.Jessica

I don't have the exact quote in front of me, but IIRC when HHR finally
find the book with biographical information on Nicholas Flamel, it says
(paraphrasing here), "Nicholas Flamel is the only known maker of the
Sorcerer's Stone."  So apparently he discovered how to make the stone all
by himself, presumably long before Dumbledore was born.  Later, the two
worked together on other alchemical research.


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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"