What About a Flame-Freezing Charm? (WAS: The Potions inconsistency)

[mrs_snape at softhome.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 47602

erisedstraeh2002 writes:
>  Perhaps he used a flame-freezing charm to get through 
> the fire.  Harry doesn't learn about flame-freezing charms until Book 
> 3, so this option wouldn't have occurred to him.  But it could have 
> occurred to an experienced wizard like Quirrell.  And it's certainly 
> a lot faster than figuring out the riddle!

But wouldn't it be completely besides the point to make things that easy? 
They were trying to keep experienced wizards out - they surely didn't think 
they needed to protect it from the pupils alone, did they? And while Harry, 
Ron and Hermione managed to get through they were 3 people, each with 
special skills. Quirell got through because he knew what was expecting him. 
One single wizard with no idea about what would wait for him would have had 
quite a hard time - I doubt they would have left an option for cheating at 
the very last barrier. 

I'm quite sure the flames were un-freezable - the auto-refill option seems 
to be a good one because I honestly can't think of any other way it was 
done. 

Dinah