Flamel for DADA Teacher

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 132416

Finwitch wrote:

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.

vmonte:

I think that DD also explains in SS/PS that both Pernelle and Nicolas 
are going to die. I think that JKR is serous when she says that 
Nicolas is dead, and I'm not sure that he will come back as a ghost 
since he and Pernelle seem to have accepted their destiny in SS/PS 
(at least it seems that way according to what DD tells Harry in 
SS/PS). 

I do wonder however if the brain that attacked Ron in OOTP might have 
belonged to Flamel. If so, Ron might start having some important 
memories. I just don't see why JKR would add the brain bit into OOTP 
unless she planned on using the attack as a way to give us some 
information about events from the past. She could pretty much use Ron 
as a means of getting important information to her readers. Ron could 
be a "human penseive" so to speak. Perhaps Flamel has information 
regarding Godric Gryffindor, Salazar, Grindelwald, etc.

Vivian