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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 89573

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Fred Waldrop" 
<fredwaldrop at y...> wrote:p here;
> 
> Has anyone else thought that HRH were wrong about Sturgis 
Podmore,  and why he was sent to Azkaban for 6 months. (page 
258 OotP UK) Maybe he was sent into the DoM to destroy the 
Orb, but like DD, LV  was watching also, and had his DE alert the 
right people at the right time to stop Podmore.

> Until we find out more, we really do not know why Podmore 
was trying  to enter the DoM.
> 

There is one clue which many have missed, including HRH 
themselves. The surge of happiness Harry felt when he was in 
Umbridge's office coincided with Podmore's sentencing. This 
argues very strongly that Sturgis was loyal to Dumbledore.

Podmore cannot have been framed by the Ministry, since they 
would have let the Prophet know if they'd suspected he was one 
of Dumbledore's people.  Therefore, he must have been set up 
by Voldemort . Of course all this happens *before* Kreacher 
defected, proving there is indeed a traitor in the Order.

 Moody says, on page 182 US that Podmore had failed to show 
up for the second time in a week. I think the first failure was 
because he had been captured by LV's forces, put under 
Imperius and commanded to steal the Orb, just as Bode was.

I have thought of another reason Dumbledore couldn't break in to 
the Department of Mysteries to destroy the Orb. He could not 
have broken through the protections undetected.  Harry's dreams 
do not take him past the doorway because, until Rookwood's 
escape, Voldemort  himself did not know how to get through.

Pippin