[HPforGrownups} Quirrell and the Troll

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 58866

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, IAmLordCassandra at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/28/2003 6:12:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> patgruenke at c... writes:
> 
> 
> > > Jimmy Pickle wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Wouldn't the other staff have known what each one was doing to
> > > protect the stone - especially if it involved large three headed
> > > dogs, or stinky mountain trolls?
> > > And... If they knew about Quirrell's gift with trolls, wouldn't 
that
> > > raise questions regarding the earlier fainting episode?
Cassie wrote:> 
> 
> I have my own theory. As far as I know, we don't KNOW when the 
stone defense 
> was set up exactly. We know it spent some time at Gringotts -but do 
we know 
> for how long?  The whole thing could've been being planned long 
before Harry 
> found out about it. 
> 
> Perhaps Quirrell made his 'contribution' before his little 
trip/breakdown. I 
> personally think it was a small stroke of brilliance for him to act 
the way he 
> did on Halloween. That would lead people to think: 
> 
> "He can't even handle THAT troll...he couldn't possibly handle his 
own now. I doubt he'd try to get the stone." 
> 
> Or something like that.  
> 
> What I'd like to know is how he knew where the Stone was in 
Gringotts XP 
> 
Valky (me):
THis is the most plausible explanation I have seen for this problem. 
To which I had no real answer before.
It covers a few issue neatly. Firstly being how the other teachers 
handled seeing Quirrel faint at Halloween, secondly of course an 
explanation for their dismissal of his erratic behaviour since the 
beginning of the year and donning the Turban.
Harry explained away his looking tired and about to crack with his 
assumption that Snape was causing Quirrel grief. It makes perfect 
sense that the teachers also may have been excusing his apathy 
against the Troll with their own views on the event coinciding with 
the decline in his appearance.

I would also like to know how he got the information on where the 
stone was in Gringotts. The fact that he could find out so easily is 
most likely to be why DD sent Hagrid to retrieve the stone in the 
first place. Endless speculation to be had about hows and whys. No 
time left to do it sorry.
 
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