Plot Oversight in PS/SS?

[Kathy]

No: HPFGUIDX 138870

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Derek Hiemforth" <derek at r...> 
wrote:
> So if the Mirror of Erised has been guarding the Stone since
> the start of the year, down behind a gauntlet of traps, how is
> Harry able to stumble across it around Christmas time in an
> empty classroom?
> 
> Am I missing something?


I think it's a great idea, actually.  Imagine going through all the 
protections to come to an empty room.  You'd have to start all over 
again, trying to figure out where the stone might be hidden.

I think you've got something...obviously something we can't explain, 
but if I were going to, I'd say that Dumbledore set up the mirror, 
then didn't put it at the end of the trail, so to speak.  Fluffy in 
essence, wasn't protecting anything, except the secret that there 
was no prize at the end of the run.

However, Harry found the mirror and was laying his life to waste 
viewing his family every night.  Dumbledore knew he had to do 
something...and the only place he could put the mirror that Harry 
wouldn't find it was...at the end of the puzzle.  He was still quite 
confident that no one would be able to get the stone.

This is why I wish JKR would write an 8th book...only from 
Dumbledore's diary, or pensive...explaining all the ways that 
Dumbledore guided Harry, helping him to be the best he could be... 
preparing him for the final battle.  For me, it's like looking into 
the Mirror of Erised...it will be an unrealized dream.

KathyO