The story doesn’t really make sense as told. It fit’s Quirrell’s view of the world to a T, tough, so he isn’t questioning it enough.
Dons tinfoil
Someone on reddit pointed out that “confused scribble” might simply mean “A busload of aurors in a bag of holding” Now for really amusing wtfry, let’s make that “A busload of arch-wizards.”
Follow me down the rabbithole for a second: Voldemort’s read on the tale of Perenelle is obviously, blatantly, just wrong. It fits his worldview far to well, and has some logical flaws in it, especially concerning the cup.
So, I had a thought. As Harry pointed out, one thing to do with immortality, is to share it.
Further, it is a core part of wizarding culture to not share dangerous magic freely. And the stone is dangerous. It isn’t just immortality, it is also a weapon of utterly insane destructive potential.
Theory 1: Baba Yaga is not dead. Perenelle was simply the first person she chose to share her secret with.
I give this one quite high odds. The most likely alternative is that her death was accidental, which would be just.. ugh. Traumatic, much?
Theory 2: All those historical wizards that lived very long lives? Those were her further apprentices as she—being appropriately cautious with the dooms-day device—established that they could, in fact, be trusted with this level of power over a very long period of time. (.. and probably some mind-reading) Most of them are also not dead. And most of them are sitting in that chamber, playing poker.
The story doesn’t really make sense as told. It fit’s Quirrell’s view of the world to a T, tough, so he isn’t questioning it enough.
Dons tinfoil
Someone on reddit pointed out that “confused scribble” might simply mean “A busload of aurors in a bag of holding” Now for really amusing wtfry, let’s make that “A busload of arch-wizards.”
Follow me down the rabbithole for a second: Voldemort’s read on the tale of Perenelle is obviously, blatantly, just wrong. It fits his worldview far to well, and has some logical flaws in it, especially concerning the cup.
So, I had a thought. As Harry pointed out, one thing to do with immortality, is to share it.
Further, it is a core part of wizarding culture to not share dangerous magic freely. And the stone is dangerous. It isn’t just immortality, it is also a weapon of utterly insane destructive potential.
Theory 1: Baba Yaga is not dead. Perenelle was simply the first person she chose to share her secret with. I give this one quite high odds. The most likely alternative is that her death was accidental, which would be just.. ugh. Traumatic, much?
Theory 2: All those historical wizards that lived very long lives? Those were her further apprentices as she—being appropriately cautious with the dooms-day device—established that they could, in fact, be trusted with this level of power over a very long period of time. (.. and probably some mind-reading) Most of them are also not dead. And most of them are sitting in that chamber, playing poker.
Baba Yaga is Flamel.
That might be the case, but we have the breaking of the tradition of Dark Wizards teaching Battle magic as independent evidence for the murder.
It’s evidence that it’s generally believed she was murdered.