Woo! Harry Potter meta, here we come. (RE: this post, where I allege that Dumbledore brought the Stone to Hogwarts specifically to test Voldemort after ten years of radio silence.)
First of all, up front: I don’t think Dumbledore brought the Stone to Hogwarts specifically to test Harry. In fact, part of why I’m so sure it’s a test for Voldemort is because setting the whole situation up as a test for Harry in the first place makes so little sense. It definitely did become a test for Harry, (but more on that later).
So to me, understanding what’s going on in this situation rests on three questions.
- Why did the stone have to be moved right then, at the same moment Harry was starting Hogwarts, ten years after Voldemort’s defeat?
- Why bring it to Hogwarts specifically?
- Why hide it behind the series of obstacles that were chosen to guard it?
… I thought that it was plainly stated that the Philosophers Stone was moved to Hogwarts because there was a plan to steal it from Gringotts and therefore had to moved to the most protected location in the magical world … which is Hogwarts. Harry linking the Gringotts robbery and the Stone was a big plot point so how did you conclude that it had anything to do with Dumbledore trying to get Harry killed before he turned 12?
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