...HRH friendship - SS/PS the obstacle course was meant for HRH

[aggiepaddy]

No: HPFGUIDX 105793

SSSusan:
> That's PRECISELY the point--a bunch of first years *did* break 
> through!!  And two of those first-years have just this year been 
> introduced to the WW, so it's not like they've been sitting around 
w/a family filled w/ witches & wizards, learning & practicing spells 
> their whole lives.  I *do* believe HRH are each quite gifted in 
their own ways, but there are things they DON'T know as 1st years 
that 5th years or 7th years or adults would know...yet this little 
bunch of 
> 1st years DID break through!  So if they could do it, then how 
would 
> this setup have been powerful enough to have REALLY stop an adult 
> wizard?  HRH getting through is precisely the fodder people like 
> vmonte & I needed for our theory that DD set this up for Harry [my 
> view] or for HRH [vmonte's view].
> SNIP
> 
> Halli:
> > I doubt that DD sat down and thought "Hmm, Harrys good at flying, 
> > we'll do that, Hermione's smart, so she can solve this...Ron! Ron 
> > can play chess! I'll have Minerva do that!" ...Just seems highly 
> > unlikely that he prepared it specifically for a bunch of first 
year 
> > students when there were actual dark wizards who could easily 
break 
> > through something set at that level of difficulty, and who were 
> > after the stone. I'm sorry it just seems to dangerous an artifact 
> > to allow VM to get  his hands on it simply because they think 
> > Harrys going to get to it. Too risky.
> 
> SSSusan:
> Well, to me it doesn't seem so unlikely. :-) SNIP


Aggie: 
Just to put my tuppence in,   I agree with Halli (evil grin), I don't 
believe that DD sat down and thought"Hmm, Harry's good at...etc"  NO! 
I believe that JK Rowling sat down and thought this!! ;o)
This book was mainly geared towards children and most children would 
not look at this in as much depth as we are.  She did not know what a 
run away success these books were going to be, she didn't know that 
she was going to be able to write the sequels to PS even though she 
had a plan of the next 6 years of Harry and co's life in her mind.  
I've seen a quote that JKR said that when started writing these books 
she didn't write them for children.  I believe that she wrote PS for 
HERSELF.  However it was aimed, upon release, to a child's market and 
thus had to be in tune with the children.  I only discovered it 
because my eldest daughter brought it home from school one day!  

I think that the first 2 books were 'fluffed out' because of the 
child market they were being aimed at.  That means I think the tasks 
etc were too easy for a RL view on the WW.  Does that make sense? It 
was dumbed down.

In essence I agree with both Halli AND SSSusan because they both have 
a valid point.  The thought of DD risking the PS just to let HRH test 
themselves is almost laughable if we think of it as an adult making 
the tasks easy enough for 3 eleven yr olds to pass through without 
too much difficulty.  The PS is an EXTREMELY important artifact and I 
had problems with the fact that it was so easy to get to.  I know the 
end task of the mirror is all important, I'm just trying to get 
across my point!  OTOH though, the tasks seemed to be geared towards 
HRH.  It uses all their specific skills. It's too coincedental that 
they each use their talents and become triumphant!  Pure and simply 
it's fluff!!  But, I think that's just because JKR had to write it 
that way.  IMHO

;o)