The parent was the first hypothesis that I formed when I first read that chapter, but it doesn’t check out. Putting yourself out of action for ten years and waiting another ~7 for your chosen champion to mature doesn’t look like an optimal way of taking over the world.
And then there’s the whole Philosopher’s Stone plot. Clearly, he’s planning to return to power.
Come to think of it, why is the Philosopher’s Stone in Hogwarts this year? Dumbledore introduces the Third Floor Corridor in chapter 12, so we know it hadn’t been around before.....
Why lay out a bait for Voldemort the year Harry joins Hogwarts? What does DD know?
From canon. Because this was the year that Quirrellmort tried to steal it out of the vault at Gringotts. So it needed to be somewhere safer—the only place safer than Gringotts → Hogwarts.
In canon, Quirrelmort tried to steal it after it was taken away. We were never told why Dumbledore suspected that Voldemort would try to get a hold of it that year.
The parent was the first hypothesis that I formed when I first read that chapter, but it doesn’t check out. Putting yourself out of action for ten years and waiting another ~7 for your chosen champion to mature doesn’t look like an optimal way of taking over the world.
And then there’s the whole Philosopher’s Stone plot. Clearly, he’s planning to return to power.
Come to think of it, why is the Philosopher’s Stone in Hogwarts this year? Dumbledore introduces the Third Floor Corridor in chapter 12, so we know it hadn’t been around before.....
Why lay out a bait for Voldemort the year Harry joins Hogwarts? What does DD know?
From canon. Because this was the year that Quirrellmort tried to steal it out of the vault at Gringotts. So it needed to be somewhere safer—the only place safer than Gringotts → Hogwarts.
In canon, Quirrelmort tried to steal it after it was taken away. We were never told why Dumbledore suspected that Voldemort would try to get a hold of it that year.