"A certain disregard for rules" (was Re: Harry's importance and...)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57254

 
> The timing on that would be awfully tight.  When Harry walked into the
> room, Quirrel was staring at the mirror, completely stumped.  Harry
> and Quirrel had their confrontation, which did not take all that long,
> at the end of which, Harry passed out, no longer able to protect the
> stone. Dumbledore's arrival could not have occurred very long after
> Harry lost consciousness.  It seems far more likely that Dumbedore
> would have walked in while Quirrel was still trying to figure out what
> the mirror was supposed to do.
> 
> I'm not arguing that Harry's motives aren't good, but that particular
> stunt of his could have gone very badly, and could have had the exact
> effect he was trying to avoid.
> 
> "Kk"

What has to be kept in mind is that Dumbledore seemed to be encouraging 
Harry to go after the Stone, by getting him the cloak, explaining the mirror, and 
kind of generally staying out of the way.

Originally I thought that Dumbledore just kind of meant it as an obstacle 
course, to see if the Trio could make it, without realizing that Quirrell was 
betraying them.

But, then I realized that Dumbledore, through Snape, should have known 
Quirrell was a bad guy, yet he didn't do anything to shut Quirrell down, and let 
himself get yanked away from the school pretty easily and apparently didn't 
tell McGonagall what was happening.

Perhaps Dumbledore wanted Harry to go after the stone in the manner he did, 
in which case the rule-breaking should be looked at differently.

Darrin
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