[HPforGrownups] What Dumbledore knows (was Re: Possible Discrepancy in PS

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 18311

MMMfanfic wrote:
>
>A question I have is how did Dumbledore know someone is after the
>Stone in the first place without knowing who is after it?  Divination?

How did he know someone would be after a stone that gives the possessor 
immortality and boundless wealth???? <g> OK, I assume you mean how did he 
know someone would be after it at that particular time.  Perhaps there had 
been an attempt on it before, and Nicholas Flamel had asked him to look 
after it.  Presumably it wasn't at Gringotts then.  Or perhaps D has some 
link with Voldemort - it wouldn't be the first time he has acted with 
uncanny speed. He must have sent Hagrid with instructions to get baby Harry 
within minutes of V's flight:  Hagrid is (as far as we know) first on the 
scene.  It can't have been more than a couple of hours, for a baby to 
survive in the rubble.  (I know there are amazing stories of infants 
surviving days after an earthquake, but a novel, even one with wizards and 
dragons, has to stick with what's plausible.)  Yet he misses three 
unregistered animagi under his nose for several years.  Odd.
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