'I've found him!' he whispered. 'I've found Flamel! I told you I'd read the name somewhere before, I read it on the train coming here -- listen to this: "Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel"!'
...then further down the page...
'Nicolas Flamel,' she whispered dramatically, 'is the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone!'
This is from page 237 of J.K. Rowling's Harry Poter and the Philosopher's Stone published by Bloomsbury.
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I'm not sure if you knew, but the philosopher's stone is an idea that has been around for a long time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone
It's another one of those things started back when Arabs were great intellectuals, then spread to Europe and went on from there.
The title of the US version was changed to "Sorcerer's Stone" to accommodate (perceived) American ignorance of that bit of lore.
Rowling certainly did her homework.
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