Oops! Dumbledore did it again!

[Scott Northrup]

No: HPFGUIDX 51053

Sheryl
> The thing about the first book, however, is that the stone would have
> actually been *safer* if Harry had not interfered. Voldemort/Quirrell
could
> have stood there all night, did all the hocus pocus imaginable and still
> could not have gotten the stone out of that mirror because of selfish
> motives. In every other book Harry's help has been needed, but in the
first
> book I think Harry just stuck his nose in where it didn't belong. <g>
Still
> love him for it, though.

You can't guarantee that Quirrel would have NEVER gotten the stone out of
the mirror.  We, the reader, have no way of knowing this (for all we know,
Quirrel could have thrown a brick at it, and the stone would have tumbled
out *grins*).  We can only assume that Harry going after the stone was the
best possible outcome, because it resulted in thwarting Quirrelmort.

-Scott