Renegade goblin (was: The Ghoul in the attic)

[Susan Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 97022

--- meriaugust wrote:
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> 
> 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. 

Now me (Constance Vigilance):

Reject my Redeemed!Quirrell if you want. Reject ESE!Bill. But canon 
specifically says (SS/PS US edition, page 76): "If anyone but a 
Gringotts goblin tried that (opening the vault), they'd be sucked 
through the door and trapped in there," said Griphook.

I'm not buying that there is any other way to get into the secure 
vault. It would not have been stated so directly if it were not so. 
Voldemort wasn't attached to Quirrell at that time, so he wasn't at 
the break-in. Besides, he's not real good at curse-breaking, else he 
could have gotten the prophecy much earlier. Hmm. Who do we know who 
IS good at curse-breaking? Could we be back to ESE!Bill? But it still 
comes back to the fact that the break-in was an inside job. Renegade 
goblin or ESE!Bill, Quirrell had help. And that "help" had a body 
more than just vapor.

~Constance Vigilance, hoping that someone will want to talk about the 
Ghoul in the attic, too.