[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape Leg / ChapDisc: Erised, Invisibility, Socks / Manipulative / Weddings

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 188496

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:15 AM, bboyminn <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> bboyminn:
>
> I've never thought the obstacles in the various chambers
> were specifically made to match the skills of the Trio. It
> seems more obvious, that they reflect the talents, logic, and
> mindset of the creators of the obstacles, as well as the
> mindset of wizards in general.
>
> Notice, that none of them were insurmountable. They all were
> puzzles that had a solution; the plant, the flying keys,
> the chess board, the phials of potions, and the mirror.
>
> Again, a reasonable and logical person would not have set
> riddles with solutions, they would have made insurmountable
> roadblocks.

Not necessarily.  They could have set up traps with a definite
solution so that in an emergency one of the staff could get through to
the Stone quickly (to protect it, for instance).


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>