It has occured to me that IF harry does obtain the sorcerer’s stone...it’s quite likely that quirrel will have been the one to get it out of the mirror, WITHOUT utilizing his leet magical skills.
dumbledore thinks voldemort should find the trap surrounding the sorcerer’s stone to be irresistable just for being such a puzzle.
Quirrelmort declares he has never seen such an obvious trap...in a way that suggest that he is quite tempted to go after whatever is inside, whether or not he knows what’s inside.
The troll DID happen, even though whether it was quirrel’s diversion or not remains to be seen.
The stone is merely the most preferred way of obtaining an actual body as far as quirrelmort is concerned, while harry very much wants to make everyone immortal, and would very much want to use the stone.
I tried imagining how this might work, including thinking about how the mirror works, and this got me to revise my probability that the mirror would respond well to Quirrell downward. Assuming Quirrelmort and that Harry’s Dark Side is a reflection of Voldemort’s feelings on death (which are big assumptions, but they seem likely to be correct), I don’t think Quirrell would be recognized by the mirror as someone who both wanted the stone but did not want to use it (Voldemort killed people to save himself from death, dark side is terribly afraid of death and is known for using whatever resources it can, etc). (The key question is whether oclumency works on the mirror, but given that canon Dumbledore placed this security mechanism himself, according to him, I think the defense professor would be as uncertain as we are about Oclumency’s efficacy.)
What following the idea “How to retrieve the stone?” did turn up, though, was a parallel to canon, with Harry’s dark side suggesting he “Use the boy.” The question is which boy (Neville is the main candidate sticking in my mind, but I’m not sure why; maybe because he’s the only boy in Harry’s camp that seems likely to wind up in such a situation who might not want to use the stone? Most obvious candidates (Draco, maybe Ron?) seem like they’d have motivation to use it.).
It has occured to me that IF harry does obtain the sorcerer’s stone...it’s quite likely that quirrel will have been the one to get it out of the mirror, WITHOUT utilizing his leet magical skills.
dumbledore thinks voldemort should find the trap surrounding the sorcerer’s stone to be irresistable just for being such a puzzle.
Quirrelmort declares he has never seen such an obvious trap...in a way that suggest that he is quite tempted to go after whatever is inside, whether or not he knows what’s inside.
The troll DID happen, even though whether it was quirrel’s diversion or not remains to be seen.
The stone is merely the most preferred way of obtaining an actual body as far as quirrelmort is concerned, while harry very much wants to make everyone immortal, and would very much want to use the stone.
I tried imagining how this might work, including thinking about how the mirror works, and this got me to revise my probability that the mirror would respond well to Quirrell downward. Assuming Quirrelmort and that Harry’s Dark Side is a reflection of Voldemort’s feelings on death (which are big assumptions, but they seem likely to be correct), I don’t think Quirrell would be recognized by the mirror as someone who both wanted the stone but did not want to use it (Voldemort killed people to save himself from death, dark side is terribly afraid of death and is known for using whatever resources it can, etc). (The key question is whether oclumency works on the mirror, but given that canon Dumbledore placed this security mechanism himself, according to him, I think the defense professor would be as uncertain as we are about Oclumency’s efficacy.)
What following the idea “How to retrieve the stone?” did turn up, though, was a parallel to canon, with Harry’s dark side suggesting he “Use the boy.” The question is which boy (Neville is the main candidate sticking in my mind, but I’m not sure why; maybe because he’s the only boy in Harry’s camp that seems likely to wind up in such a situation who might not want to use the stone? Most obvious candidates (Draco, maybe Ron?) seem like they’d have motivation to use it.).