Dating (Re: Horse Feathers)

[JoAnna]

No: HPFGUIDX 93867

Geoff said:

<<<Looking at your date of 1296 (which still puzzles me), that would
date the book's publication as 1962. OK, so it isn't self-updating.
But then, why is it described as an enormous /old/ book? A
description likethat makes me visualise one of these leather bound
huge volumes dating from the 19th century......>>>

JoAnna:

But remember that the book is being looked at from the perspective 
of a twelve-year-old boy.  To a twelve-year-old boy, an adult over 
the age of 30 is old.  :)

I wouldn't be surprised if Ollivander was a *relative* of Flamel, 
but I doubt the two are one and the same for the reasons I've given 
before, and also given Dumbledore's reaction when Harry asks him 
about Flamel in PS/SS (again, I don't have the book handy, so this 
is from memory, but it's from the chapter "The Man With Two Faces"):

"But your friend... Nicholas Flamel..." [said Harry].

"Oh, you know about Nicholas?"  Dumbledore said, looking 
delighted.  "You *did* do the thing properly, didn't you?"

It seems that if Flamel was Ollivander, Dumbledore, rather than 
being delighted, would first want to know if *Harry* knew who Flamel 
really was - i.e., just how much Harry & co. had found out about 
Flamel.

- JoAnna, who is firmly convinced that Flamel and Ollivander are two 
different people, and wonders why this even matters to her in the 
first place :)