Protecting the Stone(wasRe:Elixir of Life)

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 74875

KathyK:

> >Plus, moving the stone right before someone tries to steal it is   
WAY too big a coincidence to swallow, even for gullible me.  
> > I just threw that last bit in there to show you all that my mind 
is 
> > going every which way with this topic.
> > 
> > KathyK (getting dizzy thinking in circles)

meltowne: 
> Perhaps the plan was always to protect it at Hogwarts, and it was 
at 
> Gringotts while DD worked out the protections.  Hagrid was sent to 
> remove the stone, but the teachers involved in protecting it had to 
> know roughly when it would be moved - perhaps the attempt by 
Quirrel 
> happened when it did because he knew it was going to be moved.  
> Unfortunately (for him) he was just a bit too late.

KathyK:
See?  I go to dismiss a notion out of hand and you have to go and 
make it make sense again.  It did not occur to me that moving the 
Stone to Hogwarts would set Quirrel's plan in motion, but that makes 
a great deal of sense, too.  Especially since Quirrel *was* in on 
protecting the stone, kindly providing that troll.  He'd know the 
stone was coming, but not exactly when.  When he sees Hagrid and 
Harry at the Leaky Cauldron he suspects that Dumbledore has finally 
decided to move the stone to Hogwarts and knows he must immediately 
try to steal it.  Just a hair too late, he can at least breathe a 
small sigh of relief knowing that he can get through at least one of 
the protections on the stone at Hogwarts.  He then begins working on 
how to get through the rest of them.

But I still wonder then why Flamel and Dumbledore decided the stone 
would be safer at Hogwarts, or even at Gringott's than with Flamel.

This is way too much fun,

KathyK (still dizzy and enjoying it)