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Why didn't Voldemort create a philosopher's stone? Hey, brother! Voldemort and the Stone. It's how the story begins.

It's Voldemort's key objective for Harry's entire first

year, and he is very nearly successful in retrieving it. And any diehard Potterhead may have

clicked this video to immediately raise to the comments and be like, you don't need an entire

video to explain something that's literally written on the page. I think a sorcerer stone

would appeal less than all crux as to load Voldemort.

While the elixir of life does indeed extend life, it must be drunk regularly for all eternity

if the drinker is to maintain their immortality.

I believe that would he would have found the foot of being dependent, even on the elixir,

intolerable.

And boom bam, there you go. Now I guess just enjoy like 12 minutes of elevator music or something.

No, I'm kidding, because while that explanation does exist, I don't think it explains why he wouldn't just make one himself.

It simply explains why he would prefer horrocks as a method to achieve immortality over a stone.

And we know that even as of year one, he's already made most of his work cruxes and is seeking the stone anyway.

So again, why not just make one?

But the thing about this curiosity is that it's not just Baltimore we need to examine.

There's another key character directly tied to the stone, Nicholas Flamell, the only known

creator. The big question with Flamell, on the other hand, is almost the exact opposite of

Baltimore, which is, how did the stone not corrupt him? Dumbledore actually has a really great line towards the end of Harry's first year

that nearly dangles this question in front of us, and yet we all usually just breathe right past it.

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