Why Harry with the Philosopher's Stone?

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No: HPFGUIDX 47538

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:

> You have to consider that, as I said, the stone wasn't that much in 
> danger at any point. You suggest that Quirrelmort could've used his 
> wand, but I doubt that: for all we know, Harry still had full love 
> shield at that point and any spell directed at him from Voldemort 
> (which in my eyes would include Quirrelmort) would rebound and hit 
> them, just as trying to touch Harry burned them. He could've tried 
> accioing the stone, but Harry can stop that by putting his hand at 
the 
> end of the pocket. And, conveniently, Dumbledore was close enough to 
> arrive in the nick of time, so if thigs really got dangerous he was 
> around to save the day.


Oh, I get it!  I was thinking that Lily's protection would prevent 
avada kedavra, and that Quirrell could simply have stunned Harry.  
But it makes more sense that her protection, which included AK and 
skin to skin contact, would also include any other hostile spell 
attempted by Voldemort on Harry.  This must be why, in the graveyard, 
Voldemort did not do cruciatus or imperio on Harry until after the 
resurrection potion (I had always just assumed he was too eager to do 
the potion to want to stop and hurt Harry, but I see that he probably 
couldn't hurt him at all yet).

I am still not so sure how near-at-hand Dumbledore was, since 
Hermione and Ron meet him coming into the entrance hall at the end, 
and, according to D himself, "the effort involved [fighting Quirrell] 
nearly killed [him]" -- paraphrase from D's explanation to Harry in 
the hospital scene at the end of the book.  Perhaps he was just 
surprised by the timing of the events?

But, yes, your post (all of it), certainly does help.

And to Scheherezade, great post about the mirror!  I had completely 
forgotten, since it's been so long since the *first* time I read the 
book, that at the time I also thought it was important for Harry to 
have this chance to deal with the loss of his family and living 
without them!  I can well believe Dumbledore had this in mind, too.

Anne