“See?” said Hermione, when Harry and Ron had finished. “The dog must be guarding Flamel's Sorcerer's Stone! I bet he asked Dumbledore to keep it safe for him, because they're friends and he knew someone was after it, that's why he wanted the Stone moved out of Gringotts!”

“A stone that makes gold and stops you from ever dying!” said Harry. “No wonder Snape's after it! Anyone would want it.”

“And no wonder we couldn't find Flamel in that Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry,” said Ron. “He's not exactly recent if he's six hundred and sixty-five, is he?”

明白了吧？"当哈利和罗思看完后，荷米恩说，"那只狗一定在守卫着弗兰马尔的点金石！我猜一定是有人千方百计要得到点金石，所以弗兰马尔便请他的好友丹伯多妥为保管。这就是他把点金石移出格林高斯的原因！""一块能制造黄金，又能使人长生不老的石头！"哈利说，"难怪史纳皮想将它占为已有！就是每个人都想要呢。""难怪我们不能在（近代魔法发展）中找到弗兰马尔，"罗恩说，"如果他真是665岁，那他则不尽是近代了。"第二天早上，在黑巫术防御术的训练中，人们正在演习着对抗狼人攻击的不同方法。而哈利和罗恩还在讨论着如果他们有一块点金石，将怎样好好地使用的事。