The sword and the hat (Re: LV's bigger plan )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 166355

Jen wrote: 

> I thought the sword was left in the hat by Godric too, waiting to be
pulled out by a true Gryffindor in a time of need. <snip> Dumbledore
said the castle is a 'stronghold of ancient magic' when he told Harry
why Voldemort wanted to stay and teach.  Fawkes brought the hat, but
only when Harry put the hat on his head and asked for help did the
sword fall out.
> 
> Dumbledore was saying two separate things to Harry in Hagrid's hat
before he left.  He mentioned he would never truly have left the 
school as long as those loyal remained and explained that comment
later, telling Harry his loyalty had called Fawkes to the COS.
> 
> The second sentence is not about Dumbledore, but about the castle
itself, saying 'help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask
for it.'  Dumbledore won't be at Hogwarts forever, this help is
something before his time and will be there long after.  

Carol responds:
Maybe DD didn't put the sword in the hat himself, he certainly knew it
was there. Otherwise, how would Fawkes know to bring the Sorting Hat
to Harry if Dumbledore when he was called by loyalty to DD and a
request for help? Fawkes, who arrived because of Harry's loyalty to
Dumbledore and for no other reason, could have blinded the Basilisk
and healed the wound, but he surely would not have brought the Sorting
Hat with him had he not been instructed to do so--by Dumbledore.

Carol, who still thinks that DD put the sword in the hat
himself--after all, it's a relic of Godric Gryffindor and seems to
belong to DD, just as Fawkes does