[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's role in Trio becoming friends WAS: Re: CHAPTER
Cyril Andrew Fernandes
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Thu Nov 19 10:53:14 UTC 2009
No: HPFGUIDX 188457
To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
From: bart at moosewise.com
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:39:28 -0500
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's role in Trio becoming friends WAS: Re: CHAPTER
Alla:
> Okay, thanks for the explanation, I understand the mechanics now. I guess I am just with Potioncat, to me it is a bit too much of a stretch, even for Dumbledore.
Bart:
Well, the thing is that here were a series of traps designed to
thwart even the most skilled of adult wizards, and three first years
just happened to have exactly the right set of skills to get past them.
And Dumbledore clearly expected the Trio to get through them; he says as
much to Harry. This makes it hard to believe that it was a coincidence.
Bart
Cyril here:
Well, it looks like all the defences on the stone were not put in at the start of the school year. For example the Mirror was placed in there much later. If DD wanted to 'enable' the trio to be able to penetrate the defences, he could have much more easily modified the defences at a later stage rather than try to forge the friendship - which he probably had no way to know would be the most suitable one - given how much he probably know about each of the individuals at that time.
Trying to possibly identify the right set of friends would mean filtering out all the students who were going to join Hogwarts that year, finding out those who would fit Gryffindor and then selecting some who would be able to be the 'right' frinds for Harry - not even sure what possible criteria he would place on that choice - other than basic elements of any friendship. It's much easier for DD to start his manipulations post looking at the friendships Harry made - any modifying his plan going forward.
On the other hand, as much as DD COULD have done that, I do not think he in any way wanted the Trio to penetrate the defences - there is no motive to that in itself - so why setup such defences that he believed could be penetrated by the Trio. I think it was like so many other things in the books that worked well for the Trio - and not necessarily manipulated.
Cyril - , just thinking that sometimes its better to see what is there, than what we want to see there :)
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