How Alchemy Didn't Work, or The Heinrich Khunrath Wannabe

[FlaviaFlav]

No: HPFGUIDX 181525

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Goddlefrood <gav_fiji at ...>
wrote:

> The final stage - Rubedo - has its roots in love,
> despite it often having been interpreted as the
> reddening phase for the alchemy based death prediction
> theories (leading to Hagrid's death - which, as we all
> know now happened).
<snip>
> Rubeus Hagrid was fine. Fred Weasley's death lends no
> credibility to the Rubedo stage predicting the death
> of someone linked to red. That Fred had red hair was
> by the by.


Flaviaflav:

In Deathly Hallows we also had the death of *Rufus* Scrimgeour. But
there was no love lost between him and Harry.