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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 58865

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pickle_jimmy" <kemp at a...> > > 
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> 
> Pickles 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.
>

 
Valky (me):
In relation to this I agree I think that the protections were 
systematically added to the Third floor corridor over the course of 
the year. As such the stone was less protected whilst in Flufy only's 
keep but more so because only Hagrid knew at that time how to pass 
him. 

> 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?
> 
> 
Valky (me):
Doesn't Quirrel envision himself making the elixir of life in the 
mirror. I presume that whomever the potion maybe for the acting of 
making it could be classified as using the stone. Thats how I 
understand it.