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

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 57294

"karmakaze_kk" <sarudy at y...> wrote:(in message 57230)

<<However, the administrator and teachers at the school were aware of
the threat and had taken steps to protect the stone.  And, as it
turned out, those steps had been adequate to the job.  Quirrell was
completely unable to retrive the stone from the mirror.  It was only
through Harry's intervention that it was retrived at all.  If Harry
had stayed in his dorm, as ordered, Quirrel would have been stymied at
that point, and the stone would have remained safe.
Harry, by believing that he knew better than Dumbledore and his other
instructors, and by believing that the rules should not apply to him,
placed himself and the wizarding world in greater danger than it would
have been otherwise.  If Dumbledore had not returned when he did, it's
possible Quirrel could have pried the stone from Harry, despite the
pain, and ressurected Voldemort right then and there.
Now, I'm not saying that Harry did not make the best decision he 
could based on the information he had.  But his behavior does display 
a "certain disregard for rules".   I brought this example up 
originally as a counterargument to a postulate that Harry is in fact 
a conscientious rule-abiding student and that Dubledore was lying or 
mistaken when he characterized him otherwise.>>

Now me, Fred Waldrop;

If I am following your argument correctly, you are saying that Harry 
and company need not to have risk life and limb, and everything would 
have been alright. Am I close?
If this is the case, what makes you think that Quirrel would have 
been caught? If Harry had done nothing, Quirrel/Voldemort might not 
have gotten the stone, but there is nothing to suggest anyone would 
have known Voldemort was at Hogwarts. Nor is there anything to 
suggest that Quirrel would not be back at Hogwarts the next year. Why 
wouldn't he? No one would know he was anyone other than  "pppoor 
sttudddering Pperfessor Quirrl", would they?
So, even if you believe that Harry put the stone in more harm by 
going, he also showed everyone whom Quirrl really was supporting. 
(plus who he was bringing onto the grounds of Hogwarts under his 
smelly turbon)

Fred Waldrop