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

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> Pippin:
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>> What Dumbledore did, besides creating the opportunity for 
> Harry to glimpse the package, was return Harry's invisibility 
cloak, 
> which was Harry's birthright as much as his magic powers, and 
> show him the mirror, which he warned Harry not to look for again. 
> Harry put everything together like a jigsaw puzzle and some parts of
> his solution were radically off, as we know.
> 
> I think from what Dumbledore says later that he did arrange for
> Harry to confront the mirror,  because it would help him find out
> the sort of person Harry was. And he hinted that Harry might
> run across the mirror again one day. But he didn't give Harry 
> any reason to associate the cloak, the mirror, or the wrapped 
> package with Voldemort. He planned,  or rather, anticipated, 
> that one day Harry would have to confront Voldemort, and he 
> did indeed plan to prepare Harry for that day, but as he says, 
> it came much, much sooner than he expected. 
> 
> Firenze was the one who revealed  that Voldemort was in the area 
> and after the Stone. We don't know whether Dumbledore ever 
> even heard about that conversation. 
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Alla:

So, wait, are you arguing that Dumbledore showed Harry the mirror 
which is really the main trap for the stone, but did not expect Harry 
to go after the Stone?

Woudn't it be much simpler to, I don't know NOT show Harry the mirror 
at all, if Dumbledore truly did not expect Harry to do it?

I mean, you seem to be saying that Dumbledore anticipated that Harry 
would have to confront Voldemort, but later on. Are you saying that 
Dumbledore theoretically did not mean for Harry to do it in this 
book, so to speak?

The problem I have for this argument is of course that the tools that 
Dumbledore is showing Harry are **precisely** for going after Stone, 
as I said above Mirror being the main one, no?

Or are you saying that Dumbledore did expect Harry to go after stone, 
but when he is older?

Are you saying that DD was hoping that Stone will be in Hogwarts for 
the more indefinite period of time and then when Harry is older, he 
can flex the muscles so to speak?

Alla