Is Flamel dead yet?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 126570


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> 
> And it doesn't take four years+ to "set your affairs in order". 
> Couple of months, max.  The Flamels are gone.
> 
> Magda


bboyminn:

In weighing in on this in the past, I like to remind people that as
you get older your preception of time changes. When I was a kid warm
lazy summer days seemed to last forever, now the days are rushing by.
To a 10 year-old, a decade is a lifetime, to a 100 year-old a decade
is one small faction of a lifetime.

To someone who is almost 700 years-old, a decade is like a year to a
normal person. So, indeed a 'couple of months, max' is like the blink
of an eye to someone so old. I can easily see Flamel and his wife
taking five to ten years to set their affairs in order.

One could speculate, that this is why JKR made of point of noting that
Flamel had a remaining supply of Elixer. Otherwise, why not just agree
that Flamel will soon die and leave it at that?

Others will react differently, but if handled well, I won't have a
problem with Flamel appearing in the remaining books, perhaps I am
bias because, since he was first mentioned, that's exactly what I've
wanted to happen. 

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn