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

[davewitley]

No: HPFGUIDX 89578

> Pippin:
> > The same argument applies to the Stone. But Dumbledore 
> > couldn't destroy it until he got Flamel's permission because it 
> > didn't belong to him. The Prophecy Orb belongs to the Ministry. 
> 
JR:
> But I seem to remember that Harry and the gang shot spells at the 
> shelves that held other prophecies and they broke at least a 
hundred 
> of them that did not belong to them.  So if they were able to 
break 
> prophecies that they had nothing to do with, then surely someone 
> could have gone in and broke the prophecy that had to do with 
Harry 
> and Voldemort.

Um, I think Pippin's point was that Dumbledore, being over 150 years 
old, was brought up in an age when people had respect for property.  
I'm sure he always had the ability to destroy the stone; he just 
wouldn't actually do so without permission.

David