Stone Defenses WAS Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: We live stereotypes

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 57785

In a message dated 5/12/03 8:30:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bard7696 at aol.com 
writes:
> They outfoxed their teachers. The teachers set up all those defenses. 
> Ron is a better chess player than McGonagall. Harry can outfly what 
> Flitwick charms up and Hermione, at least in terms of logic, 
> outsmarted Snape. (Took her about a minute, too.)

I didn't see it like that.  The Trio didn't *outsmart* their teachers per se. 
 They only proved to be on the level with their defenses.  And I have some 
serious questions about those "defenses".  If three first years could defeat 
them, what was the point?  I don't think that those are the best defenses 
they could come up with.  I think that the first and the last defenses were 
the most important, but the others were just fill-ins.  I fully believe that 
there was not way for Quirrelmort to get the Stone out of the Mirror.  The 
"defenses" were, IMHO, just a way to slow a person down.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


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