[HPforGrownups] Re: Flamel for DADA Teacher

[brossiter at dc.rr.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 132018

bboyminn wrote:

" << snip >> In addition, I thought Flamel would be an excellent
character. Imagine
the wisdom he would accumulate in almost 700 years. So, I was really
hoping we would get to meet him in person, but alas it is not meant to
be. << snip >>

brossiter responds:

That's not necessarily accurate.  All JKR said in response to the rumour
question about Flamel potentially being a new potions instructor was
that Flamel has "now died."  This does not necessarily disqualify Flamel
from a teaching post at Hogwarts - just ask Professor Binns.  Indeed,
given the possibility that Flamel might continue to exist in this world
as a ghost, JKR did not really give a definitive answer to this rumour
question. 

That being said, given what we now know about who becomes a ghost and
who does not, courtesy of Nearly Headless Nick, I doubt seriously that
Nicholas Flamel is now a ghost or otherwise failed to properly pass
through the veil.  He's already had an extra 600+ years on earth, and
probably has seen and done everything he thought worth seeing or doing.
 Ghost or not, if Flamel had truly been the best qualified DADA
instructor or otherwise had crucial information to convey to Hogwarts
DADA students (Harry or whomever), and was truly amenable to such a
posting, then Dumbledore would never have hired Gilderoy Lockhart, nor
would have he been unable to fill the post prior to Harry's fifth year.  


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