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

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No: HPFGUIDX 89596


> Fred Waldrop:
> > 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.
> 
> > Whizbang :
> What I don't understand is why the Order would guard it at all.  
> The only one besides Harry who can remove it is Voldy himself.  So let 
> the DE's try.  What could happen?  But if Voldy did decide to go 
> get it himself, which of them could stop him?  Harry and DD seem to be 
> the only possibilities.  Guarding Harry would have made more 
> sense.  Maybe that's why, the night Harry and Co went to "rescue" Sirius, 
> no one was on guard duty.  There was just no purpose to it.
> 



Now Christal:
This is multilayered it seems.  At first, Voldemort doesn't know he 
cant have others remove it, and he is trying to send people through 
the door.

My problem, as Dumbledore, would not be with "The Prophecy" itself, 
as we know only Harry or Lord Voldemort can come for it, but with 
his "Death Eaters" actually making it through those doors unchecked. 
More lies in the DoMysteries than just those prophecies. How would 
Dumbledore feel if a load of Death Eaters got their hands on say, a 
few dozen or so time-turners? Or maybe stumbled across the door 
to "That Special Room" and crossed that threshold? Then you have to 
think about Harry. Dumbledore suspects from the beginning of OotP 
that Voldemort is trying to influence Harry, and has this guard over 
him while he is staying with the Dursley's. Obviously one is not 
needed at 12 Grimmauld Place, as all the Order is in and out of there 
anyway. But what to do about school?

He can't have members of the Order taking shifts at the school to 
watch Harry because of Umbridge. (As to which I still have a question 
about her.) So the next logical step, IMOP, would be to keep the 
guard at the MoM where most of these people work anyway. Because face 
it, when the chit hits the fan, the respond barely in the nick of 
time. What if they hadn't been watching? This just seems like a 
logical move on Dumbledore's part to me. Kinda like 
chess....Positioning his players...

Now my question about Umbridge:
The first 10 times I read this book (OotP), I seemed to have not 
registered this part. On page 275 of the American Version, Umbridge 
is examining Harry's hand the final time.


"Let's see if you've gotten the message yet, shall we?" said 
Umbridge's soft voice half an hour later.
She moved toward him, stretching out her short be-ringed fingers for 
his arm. And then, as she took hold of him to examine the words now 
cut into his skin, pain seared, not across the back of his hand, but 
across the scar on his forehead. At the same time, he had a most 
peculiar sensation somewhere around his midriff.

Now realizing that all throughout the book we are led to assume that 
this had nothing to do with Umbridge really, but just happened to 
coincide with Harry being here with her, I am not too sure now. I 
hadn't really registered what they where saying in that last sentence 
until now. When reading this tonight, this struck me plainly as 
arousal. A sick and twisted type. Almost as though Voldemort got 
turned on by this woman. So then I would have to say, is Umbridge 
something to Voldemort. Maybe a past girlfriend or brief affair? This 
is just an odd statement to make in this passage. Especially 
combining it with the scar. I don't know...Thoughts anyone?

Christal
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