[HPforGrownups] JKR's Dumbledore: Harry or Hermione

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 163951


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> Betsy Hp:
>>From what I've read we can only be sure Dumbledore knew these facts: 
> (1) someone was after the Stone; (2) the person after the Stone was 
> able to break into Gringotts.
> 
> Based on that information Dumbledore can already presume that this is 
> someone working for the greviously injured Voldemort and someone with 
> a great deal of magical skill and power.
> 
> We know that Dumbledore figures out that Quirrell is interested in 
> the Stone.  (He may have started suspecting Quirrell from the 
> beginning, but the Halloween Troll incident confirmed it.)  We know 
> that Quirrell is young (Harry describes him as such) and untried 
> (Hagrid describes him as such).  So it seems logical that Dumbledore 
> suspects a bigger power behind Quirrell; Dumbledore may well fear 
> that it's Voldemort himself.  
   Betsy HP

KJ writes:

    Actually, Dumbledore must have known that Voldemort was close by 
after Harry had his first experience with him over the dead unicorn. 
The centaurs would have told DD that Voldemort was in the Forbidden 
Forest.  Anything suspicious, such as the troll incident with Quirrel 
would have been explained, would have been explained by Voldemort's 
actual appearance in the woods. I also think that DD had his suspicions 
that once Harry and the stone were together in the same place, Voldemort 
would be lured into a trap.  That's the only reason I can think of for 
leaving the stone at Gringott's until Harry was about to enter Hogwarts. 
  For what it's worth.

KJ