Yeah, it is odd that we haven’t seen evidence of the world being improved by large anonymous donations of gold. Maybe I was wrong to assume Harry was talking nonsense when he decided the stone creating gold was just a rumor.
it is odd that we haven’t seen evidence of the world being improved by large anonymous donations of gold.
In fact we haven’t seen evidence involving large amounts of gold at all. Not just anonymous donations, but purchasing assets, hiring powerful people, bribing governments, setting up influential media, research institutes, factories…
Maybe Flamel is so old that he just doesn’t comprehend the Industrial Revolution ideas of how one can translate money into power… but some ideas are as old as money and large governments. Or maybe he just thinks using a lot of money is somehow sinful or evil. Or maybe he’s amazingly unambitious.
If Flamel had been an ally of Dumbledore when Voldemort kidnapped his brother, and could create infinite gold, then Moody wouldn’t have told Dumbledore that ransoming him would empty their warchest, because their warchest would have been infinite. And if Flamel could and would do it now, then perhaps Dumbledore wouldn’t insist as much on not ransoming Hermione.
Yeah, it is odd that we haven’t seen evidence of the world being improved by large anonymous donations of gold. Maybe I was wrong to assume Harry was talking nonsense when he decided the stone creating gold was just a rumor.
In fact we haven’t seen evidence involving large amounts of gold at all. Not just anonymous donations, but purchasing assets, hiring powerful people, bribing governments, setting up influential media, research institutes, factories…
Maybe Flamel is so old that he just doesn’t comprehend the Industrial Revolution ideas of how one can translate money into power… but some ideas are as old as money and large governments. Or maybe he just thinks using a lot of money is somehow sinful or evil. Or maybe he’s amazingly unambitious.
If Flamel had been an ally of Dumbledore when Voldemort kidnapped his brother, and could create infinite gold, then Moody wouldn’t have told Dumbledore that ransoming him would empty their warchest, because their warchest would have been infinite. And if Flamel could and would do it now, then perhaps Dumbledore wouldn’t insist as much on not ransoming Hermione.
You know, it’s sounding more and more like Harry was right about the stone not actually making gold. Huh.