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584: Harry Potter and the Hotly Debated Book Title (Sorcerer's Stone, Chapters 13 - 14)

MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast

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Fantastic Beasts - The Blind Spot of Nicholas Flamel

The idea that J.K. Rowling had them both be alchemists is also very interesting because alchemy is concerned as a study with creating the philosopher's stone and metal in the gold. So it kind of does foreshadow, I think, Dumbledore's own ambition and interest in those sorts of arts. It makes perfect sense to make him sort of an alchemist scientist, professor type character. Yeah, there was that real opportunity to finally explain how they worked together.

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