Mirror of Erised (was: About the gleam of triumph...)

[pickle_jimmy]

No: HPFGUIDX 58861

> Here's my problem with that part of the plot:
Brief Chronicles Wrote:
> If the mirror provides the stone only to the person who most wants 
to find it 
> without using it, and Harry is one of the only people who can do 
that -- 
> certainly neither LV nor Quirrel would fall into that category -- 
then doesn't it 
> follow that the stone would have ultimately been safer, had Harry 
*not* gone 
> down to rescue it? 
> 
> Also, none of the other trials before the mirror really make a 
difference, 
> unless they were trying to prevent someone who doesn't want to use 
the stone 
> from finding it. Why would they want that?
> 


My thoughts:

At the start of the school term - 
1) Fluffy was already at the school - the student's are warned about 
him (it)
2) The stone is at the school - hagrid took it from vault 713 in July 
and brought it to the hogwarts (the only place safer than gringotts)
3) I assume, if fluffy is already there, all the enchantments (etc) 
are already set up at the same time
4) The mirror though, is currently not protecting the stone - it's in 
a classroom waiting for Harry to stumble across it

So, maybe Dumbledore has some other "piece of magic" (one that is not 
as clever as the Mirror of Erised protection) protecting it at this 
time and needs the other teacher's encharntments for added protection.

Now *my* question:

In the word's of Dumbledore "You see, only one who wanted to find the 
Stone -- find it, but not use it -- would be able to get it"

If this is the case, why couldn't Quirrell get the stone? He didn't 
want to use it, that was Voldemort. He may have wanted to get it for 
Voldemort, but didn't harry want to get it for Dumbledore?

Pickle Jimmy