Guarding the Stone

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No: HPFGUIDX 119664


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Kneasy:
Poetic license - me or JKR - take your pick.
Though personally, a Harry bound hand and foot hoping to
find the Stone....
Why would he want to anyway?
Does Harry think that finding out where it's hidden would mean that
Quirrell wouldn't be able to? Strange ideas that lad has.

> 
> 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!
> 
>

Kneasy:
Tsk, tsk.
Mocking poor old Kneasy. Shame on you.
DD's actual presence was, as I said, a possibility only, ("he may").
Be fun if he was, but even a dyed-in-the-wool compulsive
theorist like me has to recognise that it's odds against. Pity.
But I'll stand firm in believing that he was lurking somewhere in 
the vicinity.

More timing questions.
Hermione says that it "took a while" to bring Ron round, then they 
had to retrace their steps, then on down to the Entrance Hall. No
instant response, all over in two ticks sequence. It hinges on how
long 'a while' is. Me, I think it's maybe just long enough to give 
support to my suspicions. 
(Motto: when there's elbow room, use it; where there's doubt,
exploit it.)

DD already knows what's happened when they meet him.
"Harry's gone after him, hasn't he?"
What a fascinating question! 
The sort of question that might (might? Ha!) make one suspect 
that DD already knows who 'he' is? Ooh! The possibilities that
could spring from that. (Mind into overdrive, steam seeps from
ears. Nurse! The ice packs! Quickly!) 

And how did he know that? 
More importantly - When did he know that?
Care  to make a guess?