[HPforGrownups] JKR's Dumbledore: Harry or Hermione (was:Re: It really annoys me ...

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 163900

Betsy Hp:
> Thanks! <g>  I'm able to shrug it off because I refuse to accept the
> idea that JKR meant for Dumbledore to actually *want* Harry to go
> through the trap door in PS/SS.  It's frustrating, because there's so
> little canon support for that view (at least that I've found -- I'd
> love for Pippin to contradict me here <g>), so it doesn't stand up to
> reader analysis.

montims:
the ironic thing is that if Harry hadn't gone down there, the stone
would never have materialised - he was the only one pure enough of
heart to get it, and his being there in fact jeopardised the
situation...  If he had remained in his dorm, Quirrell would have been
down there fruitlessly looking for the stone...