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

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57793

Oryomai, commenting on me saying the Trio outsmarted the teachers:


> 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.
> 


So how did it go? Dumbledore went to all the teachers  and asked them to 
come up with ways to protect the Philosopher's Stone.

"Hagrid, come up with something mean. That's important."

Now, did he say, "The rest of you, come up with your best stuff" and the rest of 
the staff blew him off and slapped something together?

Or did he say, "The rest of you, eh, do whatever you want. Doesn't have to be 
anything all that tough" and they blew it off on his suggestion?

C'mon, give the Trio SOME credit, will you?

Darrin