Kapitel 44: Philosopher's Stone

Philosopher's Stone.

Harry remembered seeing it in the first movie.

How this whole debacle with the dark lord started with the life giving, gold generating stone.

How Voldemort patiently waited behind Quirrel's turban for a whole year so that he could get his hands on that stone.

How the Headmaster and the rest of the staff set up stupid tests that were easily solved by a bunch of 1st years.

How Harry finally confronted Quirrelmort at the end of the year and how he managed to burn the shit out of the dark wizard with the power of his mother's love.

And how in the end Albus Dumbledore and Flamel agreed that it was best to destroy it so that it would not fall under wrong hands.

What a load of rubbish.

First thing first, why the Flamels be afraid of Voldemort. They had lived for six centuries. There must have seen more than a dozen dark lords in their life. A lot of those dark lords at some point in time might have decided that it would be cool to have a gold generating machine or maybe they would have tried to get the stone for it's 'Elixir of Life' generating properties.

And not just the dark lords but any sort of ambitious wizard would at one point or another have thought of trying to steal the stone.

And yet, after 600 years, the Flamels still had it.

And why not. With 600 years worth of knowledge and skills, they must have such great defenses in place that even Dark lords would quiver in fear from those defenses.

But all of a sudden, they decided that they cannot keep the stone safe since a half dead Dark Lord decided to steal it from them.

How the hell did anyone ever believed that story.

Oh yeah, because Albus Fucking Dumbledore said so.

There were so many things wrong with the Philosopher's Stone that Harry didn't even want to think about it.

First of all, who knows if the Philosopher's stone is real.

Well, the Flamels are immortal but their immortality could come from other things.

Maybe they just created the Philosopher's stone as a distraction so that they could hide the real reason behind their immortality.

After all, only a fool would ever think about advertising the fact that they've created something that allows them to live for as long as they want.

Then there's the thing that maybe the Stone is real but only those who've mastered Alchemy, like the Flamels could generate Elixir of Life from it.

Or maybe the Philosopher's Stone is just one small ingredient when it comes to generating Elixir of Life.

There was so little knowledge about the Philosopher's Stone in the history books, or any other kind of books that Harry was not sure if it ever even existed.

But even if he assumed that it did, what would possess the Flamels to give it to Dumbledore for safekeeping.

It would be immensely stupid to give away the source of your immortality to someone else.

And after living for 600 years, Harry doubted that the Flamels were so stupid.

So if he would have to guess, then he would say that the stone hidden in the third floor was nothing but a fake kept there with the purpose of luring in the Dark Lord.

But let's just say that all his logical statements were somehow proven wrong and that there was indeed a real 'Elixir of Life' generating Stone in there.

How would he steal it.

And more importantly, how would he leave with the stone once he steals it.

And even if he did steal it, how would generate elixir of life with it when he knew nothing about Alchemy.

Let's start from the first point.

He knew that the stone was hidden behind numerous traps that he were cleared by a bunch of 1st years.

But were those the only traps kept in that place.

Maybe there were other hidden traps that others didn't see.

Maybe the potion that they drank in order to clear fire wall would have put them to sleep in half an hour.

Maybe there were wards that registered the names of everyone that cleared the traps and sent those names to Dumbledore.

Maybe Dumbledore never even left for the ministry and was his absence was a ruse to make the dark lord act while he had behind one of those traps in order to ambush the dark lord once he gains the (fake or real) Philosopher's stone.

There were so many ifs and maybes and what nots in the existence of the Philosopher's Stone that in the end, he decided to do the wise thing and leave it all alone.

He was not a fool like the original Harry to go after something like that in order to save it from the dark lord. Nor was he someone who would let greed overwhelm his common sense.

Oh, he would make sure that the Dark lord wouldn't gain it because he would kill Quirrel with his own hands before the end of the year.

But not because he hated the guy or something.

But so that the events in real life could move as smoothly as they did in the movie.

At least he hoped they did.

But even if they didn't, he didn't really cared because he planned to become the strongest wizard in history and a mere dark lord was not something that phased him.

As for the elixir of immortality, once he becomes older, he would create something like that on his own.