The Ghoul in the attic

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 97020

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Miller" 
<constancevigilance at y...> wrote:
> The Ghoul in the Attic

snipping the majority of Constance Viligance's ghoul post

> We first meet Quirrell in the Leaky Cauldron, when (we learn 
later) 
> he is in the process of attempting to steal the 
hilosophers/Sorcerors 
> Stone from Gringotts. Some chapters elapse and we learn that there 
> was a break-in at Gringott's but nothing was taken because the 
vault 
> was already empty. But how do the goblins even KNOW about it? 
These 
> secure vaults are unusual in that, any attempt by anyone other 
than a 
> Gringotts goblin will cause the person to be sucked into the vault 
> and may not be discovered for ten years. How could Quirrell have 
even 
> attempted the robbery and escaped? The robbery could only have 
been 
> an inside job. There MUST have been a Gringott's goblin working 
with 
> Quirrell to get the vault open. Who else do we know who works at 
> Gringott's? None other than Bill Weasley.

Meri jumps in: I'm not sure if any one else necesarily had to be 
involved for Quirell to attempt to steal the stone. He was, after 
all, working closely with LV (though Lord Thingy wasn't residing in 
his head yet). LV could very well have helped Quirell master some 
dark spell that would have helped the Prof. get past the security of 
Gringots. After all, LV could live in the back of Quirell's head for 
almost a whole year, practically under the nose of DD, so he must be 
skilled, even in vapor form, at deception, and we know that Tom 
Riddle was an exceptional student, so there is no cannon need for an 
insider. 
 
> I think that Bill acted as intermediary that enabled Quirrell to 
> connect with a crooked goblin at Gringott's and gain access to the 
> secure vault.

Meri again: I just don't buy ESE!Bill. There is nothing in his 
character, IMHO, that points (like early signs of Percy did) to a 
betrayal. There is no logical reason for Bill to turn to LV: he 
doesn't appear to be power hungry or violent or ambitious or any of 
those things. I am prepared to eat my words, but from what I see 
now, there's no reason to believe in ESE!Bill. 

Meri - glad to be posting again with the end of term exams coming 
up!