THE LILY & JAMES ALCHEMIST THEORY

[Chys Lattes]

No: HPFGUIDX 131960

 "tinglinger": 
> THE SORCERER'S STONE - what we should know
><snips>
> 
> IMPLICATIONS FOR JAMES LILY AND HARRY
> THE LILY & JAMES ALCHEMIST THEORY

<snip but building off these points...>

Chys:

Ok, I don't know if anyone else touched on this but I don't see it as 
possible for a few reasons:

You said Harry would be Immortal. That's immortal as in longevity, 
not as in invulnerability. He's not invincible. He can break his arm, 
get sick, and die of blood loss. He can fall off his broom and that's 
it, lights out to the boy who lived. He might be immortal in this 
scenario but he's not invincible so it's not a good point for the AK 
having rebounded. I do think that's something that Lily had her hand 
in. It's only a good point for if Harry lived an exceptionally long 
life (even for a wizard,) but obviously it needs to be kept up (the 
dosage but be administered regularly, as it stated in the book in a 
subtle way,) and as the stone has been destroyed and Flamel is now 
dead as stated by JKR, there's no way for that to happen unless 
there's another stone in someone's posession and they've been feeding 
it to Harry without his knowledge. He wouldn't notice any difference, 
as he's still a child, and hasn't experienced an elongated lifespan.

I don't think that James and Lily were working as apprentices because 
I do recall something mentioned by JKR that James wasn't working. (If 
someone could point this quote out, that would be helpful.) So either 
it's not James and just Lily, or neither. His family had money, 
didn't they? Even if they did have money from the SS, it's beside the 
point. They COULD have gotten it from the SS, or they could have 
inherited it from an old family, or DD could have given it to them, 
even. Again, beside the point. They could have been alchemists, but 
that wouldn't have changed things, if the sacrifice were nescessary 
as someone else stated in that theory. I think it's a different type 
of magic involved, and Lily is the key, not the SStone.

Now, if they had actually been giving the elixer to Harry when he was 
an infant, I don't think it would stop the AK from killing him, it's 
unblockable, and all of that, but perhaps they didn't know what role 
it would play? Couldn't hurt, right? But I would also guess for the 
sake of the possibility that if they DID give it to the child, they 
would have given some to Neville as well, as they couldn't truly be 
certain which one LV would go for. Just as a precaution, but I don't 
think that it would really have stopped LV from killing either of 
them, as it wouldn't make them invincible to attack, just immortal in 
the sense that life goes on. 

There was also mention by LV that the SS could give him his body 
back, so either there's something about it that's not being mentioned 
by the good guys to Harry (for reasons unknown) or I think we're 
missing something important here, and would be happy to hear more of 
it in books 6 and 7.


Chys