Is Flamel dead yet?

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 126585


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, rayheuer3 at a... wrote:
> Steve/bboyminn wrote:
>  
> >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. 
>  
> I missed the original post(s) in this thread, and I'm too lazy to 
look it  
> up, so forgive me if I'm just repeating earlier statements.
>  
> Ever since it was made clear that Fudge would soon be the ex-MoM, 
my wife  
> and I have had a continuing argument about this.  I insist that 
Nicholas  Flamel 
> would seem the obvious choice for the new Minister of Magic.  He 
has  the 
> twin advantages of name recognition and being closely associated  
with Dumbledore 
> while not being Dumbledore (who certain factions in  the Ministry 
would 
> certainly oppose).  My wife, on the other hand, insists  that 
Flamel died shortly 
> after Book 1.  There is absolutely no canon on  whether he is 
alive or dead, 
> and if JKR is thinking along the same lines as I  am, there is no 
reason why 
> Flamel could not still be alive.
>  
> [Wifey has not been interested in discussing the matter since JKR 
announced  
> that the new MoM would not be Arthur Weasley.]  ::snicker::
>  
>   --  Ray
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

a_svirn:

I guess, he may still be alive
 There is a small drawback, however. 
NF is French, not British.