#Nicolas Flamel

[chocfrog-enjoyer]

The price for being a Dark Lord is going bald.

Gellert Grindelwald? Went Bald

Tom Riddle? Went Bald

But oh look at Albus Dumbledore who wasn’t a Dark Lord and was a very light wizard, look at his luscious beard and hair. Nicolas Flamel? Over 600 years old and rocking those pretty white long hair.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[iamnmbr3]

Tom Riddle: I have gone further than anyone to achieve immortality. I have undergone the dangerous and painful process of ripping my soul apart, not just once, but many times so that I will not die. I have suffered and worked tirelessly in pursuit of my goal and-

Nicolas Flamel: Do you even lift bro?

[milleeeeeee]

nicolas flamel has undoubtedly the best walk

i mean look at him go

GO LITTLE ROCKSTAR!

the man

the myth

the legend

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Tom asks an expert for the secret to immortality

Nicolas, to Tom: The real secret to immortality? Not dying. You want to be immortal? Okay, that’s easy. Just don’t die. That’s it. Refuse to die. There you go. Tom: But how- Nicolas, ignoring him: “But how”, you may ask. Well, easy. Just don’t do it. Refuse to. Say “no thanks”.

(inspired by this post by @iamnmbr3 )

[ladiesofhpfest]

She who has known Eternity by @artemisia-black

Our latest fic for Senior Sweethearts features an ancient (immortal) character, Perenelle Flamel! You may recognize her from Philosopher's Stone! @artemisia-black is treating us to a glimpse into the implications of what it means to live forever in this fic. Snippet and link below!

What does time mean when one lives forever? What does anything mean when one has endured the fall of multiple civilisations and seen great men wither in their old age?

What is the value of one's memories when one has too many of them?

Each jumbled together in her mind. 

Surely, one lifetime is not enough if a person's soul is the universe attempting to know itself. Yet after a thousand, it becomes mired in the dust of the lives already lived.

After millennia, she could only remember fragments of her first life.

Flashes of feelings and disjointed images: the feel of honey on her tongue as her mother spooned it from a terracotta urn, the squish of freshly pressed olives beneath her feet, and the roughness of her linen stola against her sun-warmed skin.

[jurakan]

Fun fact please!

Today You Learned about Nicolas Flamel's house!

In case you were unaware: yes, Nicolas Flamel was a real man, a French bookseller who died in 1418. He is not just a character in Harry Potter. Sometime (about two hundred years) after his death, however, because of his generosity, and because people love cool stories, legends popped up that he was actually an alchemist who, after getting a hold of an old alchemy book, created the Philosopher's Stone, and with it he both became incredibly wealthy and learned how to live forever.

Also, True Fact: he designed his own tombstone:

We don't actually have any evidence that he suddenly became incredibly wealthy, though he was certainly generous with the money he had, donating it to different causes and institutions around the city of Paris. People claim to have seen him, or that his tomb is empty...

Look, that's all unlikely. But! He was a real person, and his house is still there in Paris to this day! And you can visit it! It's not a museum, though, it's a restaurant: the Auberge Nicolas Flamel.

[That's... not actually what their sign looks like anymore. They keep changing it.]

I've been there! It was good food! Also: it's expensive. So, uh, maybe not the best place to go unless you're really splurging. I liked the idea of going to an alchemist's house though, and at the time I was super into that sort of thing.

[deepkissesandunexpectedhappiness]

Also, another question: if Nicolas Flamel is immortal then why does he age?

[thepmmmwitchproject]

What if Nicolas Flamel became a witch??

I mean, Flamel is already pretty much magi-coded, why not take it one step further? PRIMO MATERIA

The witch of the philosopher's stone, its nature is biological immortality. It has the ability to manipulate the chemical structure of anything from metal to human flesh, and change it to whatever it pleases. Its apparent intelligence fluctuates from of a wise genius to only a clingy baby.

The doppel of biological immortality, its form is a philosopher's stone.

Each of its segments are in the shape of one of the five alchemical polygon going in numerical order, with the icosahedron containing the witch, which has aged so far backwards from the philosopher's stone's magic, its now a fetus, using its treasured stone as a womb.

I'd imagine if Flamel was a magi (and therefore magireco unit), he'd have a trio unit with Pernelle (with Torte as the third wheel), and combine with Hermes Trismegistus and Torte's doppel.

[thesleepingdemonofhogwarts]

[dreamywander]

❗AI-art❗HP - Nicolas Flamel💎

«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly» ©Theodore Roosevelt

More pictures like this can be found in my profile✨

[tarotdeana]

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[thereaderarchive]

thereaderarchive reads PS (4)

I CAN'T BELIEVE ALBUS DUMBLEDORE WAS CANOODLING WITH NICOLAS FLAMEL WHILE HIS HUSBAND WAS IN JAIL!

You were supposed to be sad! Crying into your phoenix's shoulder (?), not getting an older, successful new boyfriend! With dragons and alchemy! What about Gellert, huh? The blood pact meant nothing to you? We all know you see him in the mirror!

And yes, I'll be reading into every little thing, especially if it's gay and not canon.

[firendgold]

we don’t know a whole lot about what Albus and Nicolas Flamel went through to “create” the Philosopher’s Stone together in HP canon so like... what if Nicolas and Perenelle had two apprentices 👀

[cursed-herbalist]

THE ALCHEMISTS | HP VICTORIAN ERA

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Perenelle Flamel - Alchemist (Mentor) ➔ portrayed by Blythe Danner

Nicolas Flamel - Alchemist (Mentor) ➔ portrayed by Brontis Jodorowsky

Delilah Sweets @usernoneexistent - Alchemist (Mentee?) ➔ portrayed by Taissa Farmiga

Violette Durand - Alchemist (Mentee) ➔ portrayed by Nora O’Neil

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Violette and Delilah met each other at Hogwarts after transferring from their respective Wizarding Schools. They share their dream to pave the way for women in the field of Alchemy and spend a lot of their time working together in the Alchemy lab, both at Hogwarts and after their graduation. While Violette obtains an apprenticeship with the Flamels, Delilah, later, unites with Perenelle to write and update Alchemy textbooks.

[wintersnwnderlnd]

Why had no one made the correlation that Nicolas Flamel could very well be merlin? Like the man creates a stone to live forever! More likely he was stuck immortal and was tired of creating fake aliases while he wanted for Arthur's return. And it's very well possible that Harry was a reincarnation of Arthur, as the "chosen one set to unite the kingdom" and conveniently Flamel dies when Harry finally takes his place as the chosen one.

[majestativa]

This literary Flamel resolves the delicate problem of the transmutation of metals.

Aimé Césaire, Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora, on Comte de Lautréamont