Anna-Marie
Active Member
I've just discovered a missing link between Harry Potter and the Camino.
Apparently, the French alchemist Nicholas Flamel walked the Camino as far as León in search of someone who could translate a manuscript (presumably written in Hebrew) for him.
He found a Jewish doctor in León who translated part of the manuscript, which turned out to be about turning lead into gold and eternal youth. But the doctor died on the way back to Paris with Flamel, and the manuscript was never fully translated.
But then according to J. K. Rowling, Flamel did find (or create?) the philosopher's stone which let him live well into the twentieth century and become a friend of Dumbledore's. And of course Dumbledore knew Harry.
So what does that make it ... three degrees of separation between Harry Potter and the Camino?
Apparently, the French alchemist Nicholas Flamel walked the Camino as far as León in search of someone who could translate a manuscript (presumably written in Hebrew) for him.
He found a Jewish doctor in León who translated part of the manuscript, which turned out to be about turning lead into gold and eternal youth. But the doctor died on the way back to Paris with Flamel, and the manuscript was never fully translated.
But then according to J. K. Rowling, Flamel did find (or create?) the philosopher's stone which let him live well into the twentieth century and become a friend of Dumbledore's. And of course Dumbledore knew Harry.
So what does that make it ... three degrees of separation between Harry Potter and the Camino?