All the protections in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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> <Tigerstormxx at a...> wrote: I just finished reading Harry Potter and 
> The Sorcerer's Stone for the 3rd or 4th time and I was just 
thinking 
> were all those protections really necessary ? I am mean Fluffy the 
> Three headed dog, The Giant Chess set, The Flying Keys, The Potions 
> riddle and the Troll and finally the Mirror Erised. Why did 
> Dumbledore go through all that to protect the stone. Wouldn't the 
> Fidelius Charm be a much better form of protection with Dumbledore 
> himself being secret ?




I always wondered why Dumbledore had all those protections up, but 
for a different reason.  If the stone would only become available to 
a person who wanted to find it but not use it, then Quirrel would 
never have been able to get it anyway so what was the use of all the 
tests.  Similarly I have a probelm with the prophecy in OOP.  If 
Dumbledore knew it already and they didn't want Voldemort to get it 
than instead of guarding it, they should have just sent someone in 
there to knock it off the wall with a spell and break it and then 
they would never have to worry about Voldemort getting it.


JR