Timeline for Why was Flamel not in any of the books mentioning famous wizards?
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| May 16, 2018 at 23:19 | answer | added | Cadence | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 3:10 | comment | added | sudhanva | @Möoz he's the only known owner of a Philosopher's Stone. Also probably the oldest dude alive. That's gotta give him some points on the popularity front. | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 21:54 | comment | added | Möoz | Because he's not famous? | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 18:33 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | @Bernard the Bear - True. I was 10 or 11 when there was a televised lecture stating that Custer rejoined Reno and Benteen's commands before the Last Stand, which didn't sound correct according to previous information. So I checked out a couple of library books about Custer's Last Stand and confirmed that the lecture was incorrect. I didn't think of looking for a book with many short biographies and checking to see if Reno and Benteen had death dates later than Custer's. I guess the card catalog didn't list any books like The First Three Hundred Years of Nicolas Flamel. | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 11:05 | comment | added | Bernard the Bear | @M.A.Golding maybe because they were a bunch of 11 year olds? | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 10:49 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | Ironically, since Nicolas Flamel was a real person (though of course the details of his biography differ considerably from the book, especially those after 1418 when he died) he was at the time one of the few wizards one actually could find in a library prior to books being written about the Harry Potter stories. (There were also a few others from existing stories and legends like Merlin one could also find). | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 6:03 | comment | added | Obsidia | @sudhanva I have a Pensieve. ;) Actually, I write a lot of answers, so I’ve looked most things up before and I also remember a lot about the books. | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 6:00 | comment | added | sudhanva | @Bellatrix How do you recall all of this? | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 5:47 | comment | added | Obsidia | @M.A.Golding They didn’t want to risk Snape possibly finding out what they were doing. “He, Ron and Hermione had already agreed they’d better not ask Madam Pince where they could find Flamel. They were sure she’d be able to tell them, but they couldn’t risk Snape hearing what they were up to.” - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 12 (The Mirror of Erised) | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 5:15 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | Why didn't they try asking the librarian who Nicolas Flamel was, or looking up a biographical dictionary of wizards which should have wizards listed alphabetically, or ask the librarian what was the best type of book to look up wizards in, which should cause the librarian to recommend a biographical dictionary? Maybe the Hogwarts librarian wasn't helpful to first year students? | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 4:54 | answer | added | Gaultheria | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 4:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/968339578833833985 | ||
| Feb 27, 2018 at 4:01 | vote | accept | sudhanva | ||
| Feb 27, 2018 at 4:00 | history | edited | sudhanva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2018 at 3:58 | comment | added | Obsidia | @Gaultheria I thought it was supposed to be a direct quote of what Hermione said. However, both “maker” and “owner” seem to be accurate. | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 3:51 | comment | added | Gaultheria | @Bellatrix - Re: maker vs owner - Hermione claims that Flamel is the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone, but the passage she cites to support her claim lists him as owner, not maker ("the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr Nicolas Flamel", Philosopher's Stone, chapter 13). | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 3:43 | history | edited | Obsidia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2018 at 3:29 | history | edited | Thunderforge | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2018 at 3:22 | answer | added | Obsidia | timeline score: 63 | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 3:06 | answer | added | Matthew Barclay | timeline score: 19 | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 3:03 | comment | added | user13267 | I don't have the quotes but it's mentioned later in the books. They searched in books cataloging recent famous wizards and Flamel wasn't recent enough | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 2:55 | history | asked | sudhanva | CC BY-SA 3.0 |