Flamel for DADA Teacher

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 132407


> brossiter:
> 
> 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.  

Finwitch:

Well, unless N. Flamel flat out refused. I don't think that Nicholas 
becomes a ghost, since he did, in a way, choose his death. I wonder 
just exactly what JKR meant with the 'now' in Flamel has now died. 
Does it mean he dies in HBP or the 7th book ('now' to mean she 
recently wrote it) or that he died during OOP (meaning 'now' as 
during a book we've read but Harry didn't find out) or even now to 
refer to her declaration.

Further, JKR said Flamel not Flamels. Possibly meaning Nicolas (since 
the question was about him). Perenelle Flamel might still be alive. 
*She* may well be their next instructor for Potions or DADA.

Finwitch