Kama, who was attempting to assassinate Barebone, had tried to take Newt and his friends captive in his sewers , allowing him to track down his target unhindered.
However, he had suddenly lost consciousness due to his exposure to the Water dragon parasite venom. Once they had arrived safely at the Flamel House, which was by then well protected by various Protective enchantments , Scamander was able to remove the Water dragon parasite from Kama's eye.
Soon after, while Yusuf recovered from the procedure. Flamel stood behind a just awokeke and hungry Jacob Kowalski which he thought was a ghost , to which he replied that he was an alchemist and therefore he was immortal. Kowalski quipped that he did not look more than years old and attempted to shake his hand. Because of Nicolas' frail state due to his extremely advanced age, Jacob's firm grip hurt him and he screamed from the pain. The No-Maj apologised and he was okay.
Flamel and Jacob Kowalski watching the future events of the day in the alchemist's crystal ball. After the greeting, Flamel looked over at his crystal ball , which showed, among other things, that Grindelwald was about to host a rally for his followers at the Lestrange Mausoleum at Pere Lachaise Cemetery. When Jacob saw, he asked Flamel where the place in the ball was located, and requested Nicolas to look after Kama, however when Jacob looked at the place where Yusuf should have been laying, Yusuf was gone, making the request obsolete.
A moment after Jacob left, the vision in the crystal ball changed and presented the upcoming tragic events at Grindelwald's rally. While watching, the alchemist became scared and wanted to warn Albus with the help of his book , he was shocked to see that Dumbledore was not available, so he panickedly flipped a few more pages and found that Eulalie Hicks was there, who advised him to go immediately.
Nicolas had doubts, because he had not been in active battle for two hundred years. However, she declared that everyone believed in him, which made him go. Flamel arrived as Grindelwald had escaped and unleashed Protego Diabolica in an attempt to destroy Paris, dark magic so powerful and unstable that none of the assembled wizards opposed to the Dark Wizard knew how to counter it. When Newt, Tina, Jacob, Yusuf, Nagini and Theseus Scamander ran out of the fire consuming everything, Nicolas ordered them to form a circle, plant their wands in the ground and use the General Counter-Spell.
This created a cleansing orange fire which, directed nonverbally by Flamel and the other, eliminated the effect of Grindelwald's spell and saved the whole of city from destruction. By the s , Nicolas had moved to Great Britain with his wife and enjoyed a quiet life in Devon. Voldemort, disembodied after his initial attempt to kill Harry Potter backfired, intended to use the Elixir to restore himself to physical form.
Fortunately, his plan was barely thwarted by the efforts of three children : Harry Potter , Hermione Granger , and Ron Weasley. After consulting with Dumbledore , Flamel agreed that the stone should be destroyed. Though they had enough Elixir to set their affairs in order, it was expected that they would die shortly thereafter as their supply ran out.
When Dumbledore informed Harry of this, the young wizard initially took the news to be terrible. However, Dumbledore assured him that, for them, it would be like "going to bed after a very, very long day", implying that when Nicolas and his wife passed on, their deaths would be dignified and peaceful. At the time of his death, Flamel was over years old. A kindly old man with a polite disposition, Nicolas Flamel warmly welcomed Newt Scamander , Jacob Kowalski , Tina Goldstein , and Yusuf Kama when they arrived at his home in Paris , treating Dumbledore's "friends" like his own.
But the trip was too exhausting for the old Converso who died in Orleans, before he could see the book. Nevertheless, Flamel knew enough to start deciphering most of the recipe. He turned into an alchemist, led many experiments, always helped by his wife Pernelle.
Until in , 21 years after he found the book containing also 21 pages , he eventually found the right formula to produce the Stone and the Elixir.
Flamel became extraordinary rich. As a generous man, he used part of his fortune to help the poor and patronized churches and hospitals in his city. The story says he organized fake funerals of himself and his wife then went to the Indies. If Nicolas Flamel could read the story I wrote he would probably be very surprised. In fact, this was a legend told after his death and quite different from what we know about the historical Nicolas Flamel.
The starting situation of the story is perfectly accurate: Nicolas Flamel was indeed a bourgeois book-seller living in the center of Paris. We have his licence given to him by the University of Paris where he had made his bachelor of arts. The problem for the rest of the story is that there are absolutely no trace of alchemy in his life: he never called himself this way, nothing could allow someone to say that he led any experiment in a laboratory.
In fact, he was more of a literary person. He became rich, not because of the Stone but because of his marriage with Pernelle from an affluent family. His fortune became bigger due to speculation on real estates. What made him noticed in Paris was foremost the very long testament he left and the long trial that opposed him to the heir of his wife. Some people had doubts about his fortune and its legality, since he was just a copyist, and were ready to believe or to make up a legend.
The story made up later from oral tradition and texts attributed to Flamel himself used his character only as a pretext when the popularity of alchemy was at its top in the sixteen and the seventeen century.
Real alchemists would write about how famous scholars or rich men were alchemists and had found the Stone or got close to it. It was a way to gain some legitimacy and probably also to make a captivating story! This story became popular again in the XIXth century, due to the attraction felt by Romantic writers and poet to alchemy and esoterism.
It would be barely known today if the name had not been revived by J. K Rowling. They are situated in the neighborhood where they lived: on the right bank, not very far from Notre-Dame and Le Louvre. The streets have kept an old aspect due to their narrowness even if most buildings are from the XIXth century.
The street was called the Rue Marivaux, litteraly the street of the marsh at the time Nicolas Flamel was alive and it was named after him in He lived at the angle between this street and what is now the wide Rue de Rivoli, passing close from the tower. At the end of this street, a big tower known as the Tour Saint-Jacques. It was from this tower, the belfry of a church destroyed during the Revolution, that started the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella that we talked about. You can find stories telling that Flamel had left on the tower some hints that would help alchemists to find the Stone.
The truth is that this tower was started to build when he was already dead. However, he and his wife did patronize the building of a portal of the church that was in the same spot, Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie.
The two of them were represented on this portal and he had the privilege to be buried inside. The oldest house of Paris is also known as the house of Nicolas Flamel. This beautiful stone house, classified by the French state, is situated in the 51 Rue de Montmorency in the 3 rd arrondissement. Auberge de Nicolas Flamel. Picture taken by Guilhem Vellut, sourced from Wikipedia. He never lived inside however it was paid by him. This place was meant for poor people who were only required to pray two times a day and dedicate their prayer to Nicolas and Pernelle.
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