[HPforGrownups] The Philospher's Stone (was: Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions))

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 119504

--- eloise_herisson <eloiseherisson at aol.com> wrote:

> This being the case and Flamel having found the formula, it doesn't
> seem to have been shared, it has remained a secret. At the very
> least 
> it doesn't seem to be accessible to anyone else as we haven't heard
> of anyone else making use of it.
> 
> Likewise, there appears to have been only *one* Philosopher's stone
> in existence. Granted, Flamel only needed one for his personal use,
> but was he unable to repeat the experiment to make more? If the 
> search for immortality is so universal (it certainly seems to have 
> been in the days of the alchemists) then surely it was something to
> be shared?
>
> <snip>
>
> In fact, why did Voldemort go through all those dangerous, 
> disfiguring experiments in his own search for immortality when the 
> answer, in the form of the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of
> Life was there all the time? 
> 
> ~Eloise


Very good questions and I don't claim to know the answers - but I'm
betting that one of the things we'll find out in the future is that
Snape started working at Hogwarts with Voldemort's blessing so that
he'd be on the spot to find out the Philosopher's Stone recipe from
Dumbledore.  Of course, since Snape was already Dumbledore's spy,
this was a perfect arrangement for both of them, and might even have
been Dumbledore's idea.  

As you say, the knowledge that Flamel had created a PS doesn't seem
to have been a huge secret (chocolate frog cards, after all) and so
it's quite likely that Voldemort was trying to recreate the recipe at
the time.

Magda


		
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