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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 166371

Pippin wrote:
> > It could be the same sort of magic Dumbledore used to conceal the
Stone in the mirror. It was there all along, but could only be
retrieved under certain conditions, in this case, that a true
Gryffindor had need of it.
> 
> Magpie:
> If Cedric Diggory had been down there would he have been left
unarmed because he's a true Hufflepuff? Of would he have pulled our
Hufflepuff's Battleaxe which would have worked just as well? Hope so,
for his sake.

>
Carol responds:
The only person likely to be down in the Chamber fighting the Basilisk
was Harry because Harry was the only Parselmouth at Hogwarts other
than the Heir of Slytherin himself and therefore the only person who
could find and enter the Chamber (possibly accompanied by Ron and/or
Hermione)--which is why I'm quite sure that Dumbledore specifically
set up protections appropriate to a person who was both a "true
Gryffindor" and loyal to himself, which he hinted at in front of the
Trio. 

If DD didn't place the Sword of Gryffindor in the hat himself (as we
know he could have done because he hid the Philosopher's Stone in the
Mirror of Erised--thanks, Pippin!), then he must have known that
Godric Gryffidor placed it there. (Perhaps the hat told him?) And he
must have told Fawkes that, if he was summoned to the aid of a student
in the Chamber, to bring the Sorting Hat with him. Otherwise, I don't
see how Dumbledore's Phoenix, who could only be summoned by loyalty to
Dumbledore, would have known to bring the Sorting Hat containing the
Sword of Gryffindor when a "true Gryffindor" needed exactly that. 

As I think I said in a previous post but may have been interrupted
before I managed to type it, Fawkes alone could not have enabled Harry
to kill the Basilisk. Yes, he blinds the Basilisk, and, yes, he heals
Harry's near-fatal wound with his tears, but, in between, Harry needs
the Sword to kill the Basilisk. Again, the protections are perfectly
suited to Harry and to almost no one else (unless Ron or Hermione had
managed to enter the Chamber with Harry--they are also Gryffindors
loyal to DD). 

Carol, puzzled by the sudden and apparently universal reluctance to
credit Dumbledore with protections whose existence he hinted at in
Hagrid's Hut and which depend at least in part on loyalty to himself