Broomsticks And Owls

by **Petronella_Pettigrew** » Thursday 8 March 2007 1:46:38pm

Flamel was a real alchemist (as reveiled by JKR), and on his tomb there are loads of pictures of snakes. One panel shows one snake eating another, one shows a crucified serpant, and another snakes bursting from fountains.

Was Flamel a slytherin?

I guess this has no relevence to the future of the series, but little things like that always intrege me... :grin:

Petronella.

by **Scellanis** » Thursday 8 March 2007 2:39:20pm

Where does it say what his tomb looked like?

by **Simatra** » Thursday 8 March 2007 4:15:08pm

Yeah I don't remember it saying anything about after the First book, and it's not in there...(Trust me I just got done reading it last week for the millionth time. :grin:

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by **GodrictheGriffon** » Thursday 8 March 2007 9:59:14pm

That confused me too, but then I realized that Petronella meant that there was an actual alchemist named Flamel. She might have even seen his grave.
But J.K. Rowling might not have known.

by **Broccoli** » Sunday 11 March 2007 6:20:55pm

There is a picture of the tomb in the Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flamel-figures.png

by **GodrictheGriffon** » Sunday 11 March 2007 7:25:19pm

Wow. Broccoli's alive! :lol:

Are the banners of words the snakes?

by **Scellanis** » Sunday 11 March 2007 7:45:38pm

Nope, the snakes are in the pictures round the edges, one on the right wrapped round a Christian style cross and two panels on the top left with lots of snakes that I could see...

by **GodrictheGriffon** » Sunday 11 March 2007 7:47:40pm

Oh now I see them. One of them is like that medical symbol.

by **FawkesthePhoenix** » Sunday 11 March 2007 8:44:51pm

wow. i didn't know that pernelle and nicholas flamel were real people.

by **GodrictheGriffon** » Sunday 11 March 2007 10:49:39pm

Pernelle, too!

by **FawkesthePhoenix** » Monday 12 March 2007 1:07:04am

yup, pernelle too. it says so on the tomb.

by **GodrictheGriffon** » Monday 12 March 2007 2:35:55am

So it does.

by **Broccoli** » Monday 12 March 2007 9:53:43am

GodrictheGriffon wrote:Wow. Broccoli's alive!

Yes, I have found the philosopher's stone and will live forever!

I don't know about other snakes, but a snake eating its own tail is a symbol alchemists often used. Our chemistry teacher told us it symbolises the law of conservation of mass/energy.

by **Simatra** » Monday 12 March 2007 3:41:36pm

Yes,they were real people and if I remember right they did really try to make a PS.

by **choki** » Monday 12 March 2007 4:34:39pm

Yeah Broccoli is right... The snake eating its own tail is used alchemy so since Flamel was an alchemist... obviously he would wanna have tat symbol on his tomb! Heeeheee

Probably in the olden days, snakes were representations for some things.
I'm not 100% sure but I believe snakes grow for live... (meaning they will continue to grow in length until they die)

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