Nicholas Flamel and book 6 snippet

[lindseyharrisst]

No: HPFGUIDX 128446

I have just noticed a little piece of information on Leaky 
Cauldron.org that has sparked an idea. The snippet below was left by 
JK behind the door on her website and comes from half blood prince.

"He looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in 
his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish 
eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, 
loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp."


My theory is that this description is of Nicholas Flamel! The main 
reason I have for supecting this is that 
1)it seems to be someone we haven't met before who looks the sort of 
age we might expect Nicholas to look (my weakest reason)
2)Nicholas was said to be "have left himself enought ime to get his 
affairs in order" (paraphrase)in book 1, by Dumbledore. I always 
thought that D. seemed to have some kind of greater meaning, like 
there was an unfulfilled aim, or a last contribution to make. It 
would make sense if this had to do with passing on something that 
could help against Voldemort. Perhaps Flamel had something to do 
with the last war, or Grindelwald (sp?)mentioned in the trading 
cards. 
3)JK said that there are parts of book 6 that nearly went into book 
2's opening chapters. It seems logical that she might have been 
going to tell us more about Flamel through a character (perhaps 
Dumbledore explaining to Harry) right after he had been central to 
the plot.
4)A reason external to the narrative itself - there doesn't seem 
much point JK "throwing us a bone" if the character is an entirely 
new one that not even the most subtle analysis of the book will 
enable one to pick up on in advance. For example, there would have 
been no way of attributing any of Luna Lovegood's scenes to her 
before book 5 had been published, had they been leaked to us. I 
think JK tries to play games with the fans(in a nice way)to reward 
good detective skills and sharp-eyed reading. 

Not saying I'm right, but it's a thought that I find interesting and 
wanted to share! Does anyone else have a view?
Snapesangel x