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In the "enormous, old" reference book where Flamel is mentioned, it says that he was 665 years old as of "last year." That means he died at 666...

Posts: 22292 · Posted: January 25, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject:

Yup that he did... that was JKR's intentions... however

BUT, the book is described as being old... So why was it "old" if the book was published only a year ago?
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I was pretty sure books update themselves magically.

I may be wrong.

Posts: 22292 · Posted: January 25, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

I doubt they do... in HBP the Potions book certainly didn't update itself, the potions were out-dated and not as accurate as they could have been.
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so JKR must of meant the book was dusty and just 'looked' old?

Posts: 6009 · Posted: January 27, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

I've actually never believed that a book could update itself, but it may of, because Harry Potter is about magic.
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Posts: 696 · Posted: January 29, 2008 10:49 am Post subject:

Maybe Hermione did the math and thats where she came up with he was 665 only last year.
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Why would she say he was 665 "last year"? Why didn't she just say "He is 655 (or 666) years old"?
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