Item from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
A legendary blood-red stone created by the alchemist Nicolas Flamel that produces the Elixir of Life and can transform any metal into pure gold — the target of Voldemort's first attempt to return to power.
The Philosopher's Stone was the only one of its kind, created by Nicolas Flamel sometime in the fourteenth century. Flamel and his wife Perenelle used the Elixir of Life to survive for over six hundred years. When Dumbledore learned that Voldemort — parasitically attached to the back of Professor Quirrell's head — was seeking the Stone to restore his body, he moved it from Gringotts to Hogwarts and protected it with a series of challenges designed by the staff: Fluffy the three-headed dog, Devil's Snare, flying keys, a giant chess set, a troll, a logic puzzle with potions, and the Mirror of Erised itself. The Mirror would only yield the Stone to someone who wanted to find it but not use it. Harry found it. After the crisis, Dumbledore and Flamel agreed to destroy the Stone. Flamel and his wife, with enough Elixir stored to set their affairs in order, chose death over the risk of the Stone falling into the wrong hands again.
A small, rough, blood-red stone — unimpressive to look at, easily mistaken for an ordinary rock. Its power is entirely disproportionate to its size. When Harry retrieved it from the Mirror of Erised, he felt it drop into his pocket — it was no larger than a walnut.
Also known as: the Philosopher's Stone, Philosopher's Stone, the Sorcerer's Stone, the Stone