Yhea, that’s not a workable approach. Seriously, Flamel is centuries old and has had the key to eternal life for all of that. and the largest hoard of lore on the planet for most of it. Trying to legilimency that mind has the most likely result of you becoming a drooling vegetable.
Next you will ask why I did not kidnap, torture, and kill Perenelle after I learned the truth.”
This had not in fact been a question that had come into Harry’s mind.
Professor Quirrell continued to speak. “The answer is that Perenelle had foreseen and forestalled the ambitions of Dark Wizards like myself. ‘Nicholas Flamel’ publicly took Unbreakable Vows not to be coerced by any means into relinquishing his Stone—to guard immortality from the covetous, he claimed, as if that were a public service. I was afraid the Stone would be lost forever, if Perenelle died without saying where it was hidden, and her Vow prevented attempts at torture.
Perenelle’s safety relied on the Stone’s uniqueness and hiddenness, which is no longer a factor as far as Quirrell is concerned.
I did not attack her directly, for I was not sure of my great creation; it was not impossible that I would someday need to go begging to her for a dollop of reversed age.
The relevant section (Ch 108):
Perenelle’s safety relied on the Stone’s uniqueness and hiddenness, which is no longer a factor as far as Quirrell is concerned.