Voldemort isn’t that good a coder—It’s a continually updating system, that loads his present mindstate onto the entire system.. And he just rekeyed it to Hermione. All backups and lore: Gone.
Dumbledore loaded the cloak with Bhals stupefication, didn’t he? Some delivery mechanism that only tiggered when worn by an adult. Hence the mad cackling and very poor plan for stopping Harry from breaking the universe <,<
Dumbledore, knowing that Harry was an expected pawn in Voldemort’s plans, just booby-traps all the personal possessions that Voldemort would logically want to deprive Harry of, like the cloak, his wand, his pouch, his time-turner, Hermione’s corpse...
In the same vein, booby-trap the Philosopher’s stone. Coat it in a fine layer of contact poison, so that anyone who managed to retrieve it from the mirror and handled it with bare skin would get whammied. Then, if you actually win, wear gloves.
If it’s something that prevents the poisoned person from noticing he has been poisoned, sure. Doesn’t matter if you could fix the problem, if your brain has been prevented from realizing there IS a problem.
Alternately, if the “poison” is some sort of deleterious transfiguration effect upon the subject, which the stone will immediately make permanent, it would be hilarious. Snape, at least, thinks this way. Remember his attempt spike Voldemort’s resurrection components with LSD?
I agree that Voldemort seems to be holding the idiot ball this chapter. With that said, you’d kind of expect an immortal god-wizard who’s 10 steps ahead to be buffed with poison and magic protections up the wazoo, etc.
Voldemort isn’t that good a coder—It’s a continually updating system, that loads his present mindstate onto the entire system.. And he just rekeyed it to Hermione. All backups and lore: Gone.
Dumbledore loaded the cloak with Bhals stupefication, didn’t he? Some delivery mechanism that only tiggered when worn by an adult. Hence the mad cackling and very poor plan for stopping Harry from breaking the universe <,<
This is a completely excellent suggestion.
Dumbledore, knowing that Harry was an expected pawn in Voldemort’s plans, just booby-traps all the personal possessions that Voldemort would logically want to deprive Harry of, like the cloak, his wand, his pouch, his time-turner, Hermione’s corpse...
In the same vein, booby-trap the Philosopher’s stone. Coat it in a fine layer of contact poison, so that anyone who managed to retrieve it from the mirror and handled it with bare skin would get whammied. Then, if you actually win, wear gloves.
Is poison really a good attack against someone who holds the Philosopher’s Stone?
Depends on the poison.
If it’s something that prevents the poisoned person from noticing he has been poisoned, sure. Doesn’t matter if you could fix the problem, if your brain has been prevented from realizing there IS a problem.
Alternately, if the “poison” is some sort of deleterious transfiguration effect upon the subject, which the stone will immediately make permanent, it would be hilarious. Snape, at least, thinks this way. Remember his attempt spike Voldemort’s resurrection components with LSD?
It is if the poison’s effect is to make the person a complete drooling moron.
Google Bahl’s Stupefaction, and then Idiot Ball.
I agree that Voldemort seems to be holding the idiot ball this chapter. With that said, you’d kind of expect an immortal god-wizard who’s 10 steps ahead to be buffed with poison and magic protections up the wazoo, etc.