[HPforGrownups] Re: Mirror of Erised (was: About the gleam of triumph...)

[Melanie L Ellis]

No: HPFGUIDX 58876

On Thu, 29 May 2003 04:38:10 -0000 "pickle_jimmy" <kemp at arcom.com.au>
writes:
> 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?

Actually, no, I don't believe Harry wanted to get it for Dumbledore.
Harry knew that Dumbledore was responsible for setting all the guards
around the stone, why would DD need to get it back? No, Harry wanted to
find the store purely for the purpose of Voldemort NOT getting it. 

As for Quirell/Voldemort, I think it depends on who was really in control
of Quirell's thoughts, but either one of them would have wanted to use
it. If Voldie was in control, then obviously he wanted to use it for
himself. But even if Quirell was in control, he still wanted to *use* it
for his master, use it to get Voldie off his head, possibly use it hoping
for some side benefit for himself. (Perhaps Quirell would have to be the
one to ingest the elixir, in which case he would receive the same
benefit, or maybe it was merely the hope of reward from Voldie for
getting the job done.) 

In any case, DD didn't say "use it for himself", he just said "use it".
Harry had no interest in using the stone, but Quirrell and Voldemort did.


Melanie Ellis
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