[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's logic puzzle/ why solvable barriers?

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 41616




>I'd like to propose a theory that builds on all that's been said and
>then goes one step further: The spells were breakable by first-year
>students because Dumbledore MEANT for Harry to face Voldemort. And in
>fact, most of the events of SS were engineered by Dumbledore for
>Harry's benefit.
>
I'd have to concur with this.

>This is why, I believe:
>
>1. It cannot be a coincidence that Harry was with Hagrid when he
>recovered the stone. Dumbledore sent Hagrid to collect Harry and get
>the stone at the same time.
>
And Hagrid allowed Harry to see it in the vault.  There was no reason Harry 
could not have been deposited in the lobby of Gringott's to await Hagrid's 
return after they visited Harry's vault.  Given the sensitivity of the item, 
and the fact that Hagrid evidently knew what it was, I would have expected 
that.

[snip]
>4. Dumbledore gave Harry the Cloak of Invisibility for Christmas,
>telling him to "use it wisely." What could that mean except "go
>roaming about the school after hours to figure out this mystery"?
>
Indeed.  This is an item that, had my intentions been otherwise, I would 
have withheld for Harry's 18th birthday or graduation gift.

When I first read the part about the cloak, I remember thinking that perhaps 
it would be used later for Harry to protect himself in a crisis.

>10. Ron then asks, "D'you think he meant you to do it? Sending you
>your father's cloak and everything?" Harry responds (after Hermione's
>obligatory horrified reaction), "I think he sort of wanted to give me
>a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here,
>you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and
>instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't
>think it was an accident he let me find out how the mirror worked.
>It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I
>could...." I don't think this is Harry?s personal interpretation. I
>think this is JKR's message to the reader.
>
It wouldn't surprise me.

Felinia



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