What to do with the stone

[gingersnape1966 <gingersnape1966@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51240

This started out with a post re: House points and Dumbledore.  I have 
been up and down the thread and have not been able to find the 
message that got me started thinking on this.  I appologize to 
whomever it was as I am unable to give credit.  I also appologize if 
this has been discussed before.  

So (finally) to my point:  What did Harry intend to do with the stone 
after he got it?  He went down to get it assuming that he was keeping 
it from Snape rather than Quirrel, but the end recipient would have 
been the same.  

He knew Dumbledore was on his way to the Ministry.  McGonagall had 
been quite stern in telling him that he was to forget about it.  What 
was he planning to do?  Stuff it in the pocket of his jammies, wander 
back to Gryffindor Tower and have a nice nap, waiting until the next 
day to say, "oh, by the way, Headmaster, here's the stone you've 
spent the last year devising ways of protecting.  I got it out for 
you."?  Wake McGonagall and ask her to keep it in her nightstand?  
Feed it to Fluffy with the assumption that all good things must come 
to pass?  How on earth did he think that getting it *away* from the 
protection would keep it safer?

It never occured to me.  That's what I love about this site.
Ginger