This seems a bit improbable as Q most likely already has the Resurrection Stone (in chapter 40, Harry relays to Q Dumbledore’s description of the Resurrection Stone, and Q immediately realises that there are things he urgently has to do—the obvious interpretation being that he has in fact seen the Stone before, not knowing what it is, and is off to get hold of it).
Though, now I think about it, perhaps that obvious interpretation is a bit too obvious and we should conclude only that Q wanted Harry to think he knew where to find the Resurrection Stone. (But there’s no indication that Harry drew any such conclusion.)
I thought it is at least reasonable to suspect that the stone from Chapter 96 might actually be the resurrection stone.
Neither of them noticed the tall stone worn as though from a thousand years of age, upon it a line within a circle within a triangle glowing ever so faintly silver, like the light which had shone from Harry’s wand
That’s the right symbol, but in canon the Resurrection Stone is much smaller. I interpreted this as the Peverells’ gravestone, enchanted to give a Peverell descendant the ‘Thrayen beyn’ quote upon making a suitable vow.
This seems a bit improbable as Q most likely already has the Resurrection Stone (in chapter 40, Harry relays to Q Dumbledore’s description of the Resurrection Stone, and Q immediately realises that there are things he urgently has to do—the obvious interpretation being that he has in fact seen the Stone before, not knowing what it is, and is off to get hold of it).
Though, now I think about it, perhaps that obvious interpretation is a bit too obvious and we should conclude only that Q wanted Harry to think he knew where to find the Resurrection Stone. (But there’s no indication that Harry drew any such conclusion.)
I thought it is at least reasonable to suspect that the stone from Chapter 96 might actually be the resurrection stone.
That’s the right symbol, but in canon the Resurrection Stone is much smaller. I interpreted this as the Peverells’ gravestone, enchanted to give a Peverell descendant the ‘Thrayen beyn’ quote upon making a suitable vow.
FWIW, this is a true fact in canon.