[HPforGrownups] Re: Troll Question

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 154519

>houyhnhnm:
>
>This has bothered me, too. It is possible that each teacher came up a
>protection but did not actually put it in place. So Professor Sprout
>provided the Devil's Snare from her greenhouses, Professor McGonagall
>transfigured the chess pieces, etc., but Dumbledore actually assembled
>everything. In that case each teacher knew of his or her own
>protection and knew that there were multiple enchantments guarding the
>Stone, but did not know the exact nature of the others' protections,
>thus they need not have known about the troll guarding the Stone.

OK, let's postulate that each of the teachers who came up with a
protection did not know anything about what the other teachers
had done.  So, ppppoor ssstuttering QQQuirrell could have gotten
away with being terrified of the troll at Halloween.  But I can't
believe that Dumbledore wouldn't have known about each teacher's
contribution.  Why wouldn't Dumbledore have IMMEDIATELY
known that Quirrell was just putting on an act?  Perhaps Dumbledore
never even told Snape or McGonagall about Quirrell's contribution.
Snape doesn't seem to know when he talks to Quirrell in the forest.
But I just can't believe that Dumbledore wouldn't know.  How else
would he then retrieve the Stone for use or after it is no longer under
threat?

Another possibility:  perhaps Quirrell's contribution to the
protection wasn't yet in place at the Halloween feast.  In that
case, Dumbledore might not have known about the troll then,
but he surely would have found out later.  Why would Quirrell
do something so obviously dishonest directly under Dumbledore's
eyes?  It seems totally contradictory to pretend to be terrified of
the troll and then use it as your contribution to protecting the
Stone.

And, while I am on the topic, how would Dumbledore get the
Stone out of the Mirror at all?  Why would the thing that he
wants most in life EVER be to FIND the Stone, when he thinks
that its products are not necessarily good for humans?

>But Dumbldore would have to have known. Did he send Snape to the
>third floor or was Snape acting on his own? Why did Dumbledore send
>Hagrid to retrieve the Stone from the second most secure place in the
>WW the day before it was stolen?

I can believe that he thought that the Stone might be under
threat and that it might have been just chance that the attempt
to steal it came exactly the day that it was removed.  But I
am still unconvinced about Dumbledore's actions regarding
Quirrell.  It seems very odd to me.

Laura
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