So at least according to FMA, whoever attempts to make a Philosopher's Stone is the farthest from highly, positively spiritual as you can get...
Ooh. Love your icon.
Thanks...I made it a couple of years ago. Take it if you like. :-)
I think the purity aspect was why she wanted the Potters associated with the stone but, as she found when she tested out the idea with her characters, it made them look like thieves.
Also, JKR ended up with the implication that DD only got his hands on the stone a relatively short time before Book 1 began; in theory, Flamel could have given him the stone years, or even decades, before, but that idea doesn't really stand up to scrutiny, because WHY would have Flamel surrendered the stone that early on? And wouldn't Voldie have gone after the stone during WizWar1 if it was just sitting in a Gringotts vault at that time?
So not only did JKR have a moral character dilemma with the storyline of the Potters having the stone in their possession, but a logistical one, too -- because WHY would Flamel have given up the stone back then, to ANYONE? And if the Potters had the stone sitting in their own vault, how would Dumbles have gotten his hands on it after their death?
So the easiest answer was to eliminate the Potter storyline, and just have the stone somehow be in Dumbles possession at the beginning of Book 1.
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Date: 2010-12-21 12:55 am (UTC)Exactly.
So at least according to FMA, whoever attempts to make a Philosopher's Stone is the farthest from highly, positively spiritual as you can get...
Ooh. Love your icon.
Thanks...I made it a couple of years ago. Take it if you like. :-)
I think the purity aspect was why she wanted the Potters associated with the stone but, as she found when she tested out the idea with her characters, it made them look like thieves.
Also, JKR ended up with the implication that DD only got his hands on the stone a relatively short time before Book 1 began; in theory, Flamel could have given him the stone years, or even decades, before, but that idea doesn't really stand up to scrutiny, because WHY would have Flamel surrendered the stone that early on? And wouldn't Voldie have gone after the stone during WizWar1 if it was just sitting in a Gringotts vault at that time?
So not only did JKR have a moral character dilemma with the storyline of the Potters having the stone in their possession, but a logistical one, too -- because WHY would Flamel have given up the stone back then, to ANYONE? And if the Potters had the stone sitting in their own vault, how would Dumbles have gotten his hands on it after their death?
So the easiest answer was to eliminate the Potter storyline, and just have the stone somehow be in Dumbles possession at the beginning of Book 1.