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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89693

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...>
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubs99111" <cubs9911 at a...> 
> wrote:
> > 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. 
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > JR
> 
> If someone had walked in to the DoM and destroyed the prophecy 
> regarding Harry and LV then that person would have heard it, and 
> while I am still not sure how many people know about the prophecy 
> itself, IMHO, Dumbledore probably wanted that knowledge limited.  
> Keeping the only record in the prophecy hall (other than the one in 
> DD's brain) would at least keep it secret for a while. But I think 
> this thread brings up a good point: why keep records of the 
> prophecies at all? Is this the WW version of a hall of records or is 
> there some other reasoning behind it, other than a really cool plot 
> device and a positively creepy department of mysteries tour? 
> Meri


And while we're at it, what can be done about all of those lost
prophecies (or rather, shadows or copies of prophecies)? Can they
somehow be retrieved (placed in new, properly labeled containers and
reshelved)? They must be important, or they wouldn't have been stored
in the DoM in the first place. What will be the consequences if
they're lost forever? Any ideas?

Carol