[HPforGrownups] Harry and the stone/ Tom Riddle . . . / The Stone

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 43613

Arcum writes:

> The big question, naturally, is why Dumbledore wanted Harry to reach
> the stone, since obviously they could have put better defences around
> it. (An variant of the age circle, for example, keeping anyone under
> 600 out.)

Very true. Perhaps there is something connecting Harry and that stone.
Something Dumbledore knew or suspected.  For futher ponderings, see my
previous post (Re: Harry and the Phoenix/McGonagall).

Fyre Wood writes:

> I won't post all the text because it's a LONG explaination. But the
> main points are that Grindelwald might have known about Riddle, and
> he influenced Riddle to go to the dark side, tempting him with power
> and informing him of the Chamber of Secrets.

Hmm, that I like.  Grindelwald's name was convenientaly dropped in an
inconspicuous place, now that it's there it can easily be brought up later
and the readers will say "Oh, yeah, the guy Dumbledore defeated."

Jodel writes:

> part of the staff if the intention was to keep anyone from getting to the
> Stone. The more ways of getting at something the more likely it is that
> someone is going to succeed at it. The whole lead up of each task being
> uniquely suited to one of the (four) children just frankly makes me balk.

Well, perhaps the tasks weren't suited for the children.  Perhaps the
children were suited for the tasks.  Who knows what that sorting hat really
knows.  Could be part of why Hermione ended up in Gryffindor, not Ravenclaw.
Harry was a foregone conclusion, of course, and he was tutored a bit by
Dumbledore himself so he'd know how to work the mirror.  Or how the mirror
worked.

Richelle