[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore: Puppeteer

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 165991

horridporrid03 wrote:
> And see, IMO, it makes *so* much more sense if Dumbledore *didn't* 
> mean for Harry to go after the Stone.  Because if Dumbledore did mean 
> for Harry to stop the theft, he's not only a puppeteer; he's a 
> moron.  Which is a pretty scary combination. <g>

 From HPSS, Hardcover, 1st American edition, page 297:

"...As for the Stone, it has been destroyed."

"Destroyed?" said Harry blankly. "But your friend --- Nicolas Flamel ---"

"Oh, you know about Nicolas?" said Dumbledore, sounding quite delighted. 
"You >did< do the thing properly, didn't you?"

	It was reading those lines that I realized that harry was manipulated 
into protecting the Stone, and Dumbledore knew exactly what he was doing 
when he hired Quirrel.

	Bart