Why Move the Sorcerer's Stone

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No: HPFGUIDX 114653


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...> 
wrote:

> <major snips>
> 
> Angie replies:
> Good one!  Never thought about the leak (that's plot device I can 
> live with).  You would think that the goblins would fight tooth 
and 
> nail to prevent that story from leaking, since their claim to fame 
is 
> that their vaults are so secure.  I'm wondering why you think DD 
> would leak it -- just to rub LV face in it?  

I don't think Hagrid knew about the attempt to steal the stone so 
that leaves Quirrel!Mort and Dumbeldore (Flamel possibly). Of these, 
only DD has a reason to leak it - i.e. to alert Harry.It would be 
interesting to know whether DD could have engineered Harry's finding 
out about the daily prophet article.

I suspect on re-reading we might be able to see DD's hand in all the 
clues to getting the stone (fluffy, devil's snare, brooms and keys, 
chess match and potions logic puzzle), much as CrouchJr!Moody 
reveals exactly (the obvious, once they're pointed out, clues about) 
how he helped engineer Harry's winning the triwizard tournament 

There have already been postings concerning the Mirror of Erised to 
suggest DD ensured Harry found it so that he'd be able to rescue the 
stone, but how DD knew this would (or even might) happen is never 
revealed.

All this suggests that DD knows, among all the other things he knows 
but doen't yet tell us, that Harry is, apart from everything else he 
may be, the ultimate human 'sneaksocope' where Voldy's plots are 
concerned; that even unknowingly (until later books) his bond 
created at GH with Voldy means Harry can be relied upon, with 
assistance, to be person most likely to discover and then foil Voldy 
plots.