Guarding the Stone

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 119638


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> Conversely  what is Harry's 'desire' at that moment? To get the 
hell  out of there, I should imagine. He certainly doesn't want the 
Stone,  it's infinitely safer somewhere out of Voldy's reach. Yet 
the Mirror  decides otherwise; it shows the Stone being slipped 
into Harry's pocket  and - lo and behold! - it comes to pass.<

Pippin:
Er, Kneasy, I don't think either of us have a high opinion of the 
narrator's general  truthfulness, but he/she/it is generally 
sincere: 

*What I want more than anything else at the moment* , he 
thought, *is to find the Stone before Quirrell does.* -- PS/SS ch 
17.

I'm afraid Harry does want to find the Stone first. Harry does look 
frightened as he approaches the mirror, but it's only because 
he's afraid Quirrell won't believe him if he lies about what he 
sees. The spell is more logical than you give it credit for. Quirrell 
does have a use for the Stone.  He wants to give it to Voldemort, 
and no doubt expects to be rewarded for it. Harry is not thinking 
of any reward, and so he succeeds. 

Kneasy:j 
> A slight digression - a timing anomaly; it's afternoon when the 
trio  decide to lay  their suspicions before DD, and McGonagall 
tells them   that he left for the Ministry 10 minutes previously.
It's 
many hours  later that they go through the trapdoor - yet when DD 
is oozing concern  over Harry he intimates that all those hours 
were taken up with getting  to London and back. Yeah, sure.
> 
> I don't believe it. I think DD was watching Quirrell and the Trio 
every  step of the way. I think it was DD and not the Mirror that 
caused the  Stone to be placed in Harry's pocket. And since DD 
is able to become  invisible without the need for invisibility cloaks 
he may even have  been physically present and it was he that 
slipped it into Harry's  pocket. Off-hand I can't think of a safer 
place for the Stone than on  DD's person, can you?
> 
> Why would he put Harry in danger? you may ask. It's unlikely 
that Harry  was in any real danger with DD lurking in the 
background.<

Pippin:

And who did Hermione and Ron meet in the entrance hall, if DD 
was lurking in the dungeons? TT!Dumbledore ? 
Polyjuiced!Snape?  Metamorphed Tonks?  The possibilities are 
endless!

Pippin