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Elevating all of mankind to a posthuman level will be difficult. He'll have to use the Stone around twice per second.
Perhaps he could use some kind of portkey system, where portkeys are set to take people to the Stone and then immediately away, and you need to use transfiguration right before that.
Indeed, one of the stories at qntm features discovering something like the Fountain of Youth, and describes the organizational nightmare of letting a large enough proportion of mankind use it.
Harry Potter, however, if he makes himself immortal, will have a lot of time. Even if a lot of people die of old age or illness before he can reach them, he can still reach a lot of people given enough time. He would also need to figure out some efficient way of space travel and terraforming, otherwise he could cause overpopulation.
Also, Nicholas Flamel would like to have a word with Harry, as he (she?) kept the Stone for herself specifically to stop a cheap proliferation of its powers.
Nicholas Flamel is dead, at least according to Dumbledore. (Or tucked away for later secret extraction?)
Yhea, two problems with that: 1: I really don't put it past Dumbledore to just lie about everything to Voldemort, and 2:. Flamel had access to the stunt Voldemort pulled on Hermione for a minimum of 500 years, and potentially more like a thousand. I figure good odds killing Flamel just gets you a rebirth in fire phoenix-style and an annoyed arch-wizard.
Doesn't this also apply to Baba Yaga?
It does. I mean, it's possible "Goblet curse" trumphs Rebirth Magic,
But my preferred theory is that Flamel is Baba Yaga, and Voldemort read that story all wrong because he managed to err on the side of excessive cynicism, which is a lot simpler. No murdering took place at all, just an elopement.
This also explains why Flamel only interferes in politics by teaching chosen champions - She is still bound by the goblet rite on the Battle Magic position, so that is the only way she can oppose dark lords that don't show up at her door and try to kill her. Well, unless they graduated elsewhere, but selectively showing up and vanquishing only those fell practitioners that studied in other schools would make things just a tad obvious.
Sure. But we have Word of God that suggested that Baba Yaga would not appear in the story again before the bit where Dumbledore said Flamel was dead. Was that "Baba Yaga won't show up again because 'Flamel', who is actually BY, is about to die offscreen" or "Baba Yaga died six hundred years ago, get over it?" Unclear. But I would suggest that, narratively, the defeat of Baba Yaga by sixth-year Perenelle exists as a clue for the plausibility of the defeat of Voldemort by first-year Harry Potter.
BABA YAGA FAKED HER DEATH AND POSSESSED PERENELLE, TRUE STORY
Sorry, I think I've read too much Reddit today.
Does Dumbledore know about Perenelle? Maybe I just don't remember.