The Resurrection Stone

JK Rowling agreed to change the title of the book from “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” to “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” because the publishers thought that American readers wouldn’t pick up a book called “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” because they would associate the word Philosopher …

Dan Reehil, a pastor at the Roman Catholic parish school of St Edward in Nashville, Tennessee, banned the books from the school library on the grounds that “The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person …

In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Nicolas Flamel is the only known maker of the Philosopher’s Stone, an object capable of turning metal into gold and granting immortality with its Elixir of Life.

Originally Answered: Was the philosopher’s Stone a Horcrux? No. Although thinking of it as a Horcrux is logical (Because the substance will give the drinker full immortality) It is not a Horcrux. A Horcrux is an object in which a part of one’s soul is concealed.

Short answer: Depending on how you define alchemy, yes, it’s possible, and we do it. Long answer: Alchemists were basically the precursors to chemists, in the same way that philosophers conjecturing about the four elements were the precursor to physics.

2 Answers. The simple fact is that although Dumbledore is known to have worked with Nicholas Flamel, there’s no canon mention of Dumbledore working on the Philosopher’s Stone; JKR: Dumbledore’s about 150 years old… Wizards have a longer life expectancy than us Muggles…

Dumbledore knew that Quirrell was possessed by Voldemort and purposely set things up for him to reach the Philosopher’s Stone. Dumbledore knew that Quirrell was possessed. As seen in the last chapter of Philosopher’s Stone, Quirrell stops stuttering, which implies that he doesn’t usually do so.

Harry drops the resurrection stone mainly because he did not need it anymore. He seeked closure in a way from the people who gave up their life protecting him and once he received it he did not need the stone anymore. Harry never wanted to be the master of death or bring them back.

He did not use the Resurrection Stone to bring anyone back from the dead that he loved like his sister Ariana ,for example, because he already knew that it turns the dead crazy when they’re brought back to life (reference in HP and the Deathly Hallow part 1) he only gave it to harry because he knew that Harry was to …

The reason Severus Snape has the same patronus as Lily’s is because he was deeply in love with her and the grief and guilt he felt after her death may have cause his patronus to change into a doe, or it already was a doe depending on when he first cast the spell.

During the last year of his life, Dumbledore’s right hand is scarred when he dons Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring, which was cursed. Had Snape not intervened with a counter-curse, Dumbledore would have died much more quickly.

Dumbledore, at one point, possessed all three Deathly Hallows. From Dumbledore’s letters to Grindelwald in Deathly Hallows, it is obvious that the headmaster of Hogwarts was obsessed with the idea of the Hallows in his youth.

Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter are the only known people to have held each of the three Hallows, although neither possessed all three simultaneously (the closest was Harry being the Elder Wand’s master, though not in physical possession of it, while having both the Stone and the Cloak in his physical possession).

James was a descendent of the youngest Peverell brother who was gifted the cloak of invisibility by Death himself. James thus got it because the cloak was passes down from generation to generation in his family. Dumbledore borrowed it to examine whether it was indeed the cloak of the Deathly Hallows.

The Peverell brothers, Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus, are believed by some to be the subjects of the wizarding legend, “The Tale of the Three Brothers.” Each possessed one of the Deathly Hallows; Antioch: the Elder Wand, Cadmus: the Resurrection Stone, and Ignotus: the Cloak of Invisibility.

Quirinus Quirrell

As a result of Prince Arthur killing a unicorn in a forest, a curse falls upon the city of Camelot making the crops wither and the water turn into sand. This would shortly result in death of the people of Camelot.

The blood of a unicorn will keep you alive, even if you are an inch from death, but at a terrible price. You have slain something so pure and defenceless to save yourself and you will have but a half life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips.””

A pool of unicorn blood in the Forbidden Forest In 1992, Lord Voldemort used unicorn blood to sustain his life, until he could steal the Philosopher’s Stone in order to regain his true body. As he was possessing Quirinus Quirrell and inhabiting his body at the time, Quirrell drank the blood on Voldemort’s behalf.