Guarding the Stone

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 119689


imamommy:

I really do like this theory, and just had a couple of comments. 

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

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> 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.

imamommy:

Well, how long doew it take to get to London and back by thestral?  
It could be several hours.  Hagrid mentions that DD sometimes takes 
them for trips.

> 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. And there 
is 
> a rationale of sorts: Harry has protection against Voldy, Voldy 
does 
> not have protection against Harry. Voldy is foiled (yet again) and 
> retires to Costa Adriatica to nurse his vaporous ego, this time for 
two 
> years or so. And as DD says:
> 
> "Nevertheless, Harry, while you may only have delayed his return to 
> power [...] - and if he is delayed again, and again, why, he may 
never 
> return to power."
> 
> And a delay is what  DD needs. Harry may  well be the one to knock 
> Voldy off his perch - but not when he's aged 11, he's not. Yet 
Voldy 
> seems to be ready for his comeback, he's getting on his feet (or 
> somebody else's, but it amounts to the same thing). He *has* to be 
> knocked back, delayed until Harry gets more magic under his belt. 
The 
> Stone stratagem will do it.
> 
> It'll lure Voldy out and Harry's protection will make certain he's 
sent 
> back to the state he was in after Godric's Hollow. You don't think 
that 
> it was mere chance that the protections for the Stone could be 
> circumvented by the Trio do you?
> Not likely! Not with Puppetmaster!DD in charge.
> 
> Kneasy

imamommy:

I think, if this theory holds up, in addition to delaying VM, DD was 
also taking an opportunity to test Harry.  

Why do you suppose it took Quirrell all year to get through to the 
mirror?  Was it just Fluffy?  or were there different, more difficult 
obstacles that were abandoned for that night alone?

I think DD set the bait for Harry when he had Hagrid retrieve the 
stone from the vault.

imamommy