See, I'd taken that conversation to suggest that Minerva has the Stone at Hogwarts without DE knowledge: "Could we . . . well, take advantage of the special properties of that little package you have under guard, Minerva?" But maybe I'm very wrong about that. I took her, "Even if I knew how to exploit those properties, I fear it would do us no good: the Lord Protector is on the lookout for just such a thing," to mean that if it were used, he'd likely find out where it is and seize it for himself. (Again, I can't imagine why He would hide it at Hogwarts -- or hide it at all -- if He had it, he'd be busy trying to use it, I'd think.)
In canon, a group of Hogwarts professors have collaborated to design the protective spells that keep the Stone hidden and inaccessible. The obvious parallel would be for a group of professors in this AU to have similarly schemed to hide and protect the Stone, but which ones? It would seem certain that such a collaboration would indicate Voldemort's knowledge of the Stone's location (because there aren't a large number of Order members on staff with the skills to create much in the way of protective wards for the Stone -- the identity of McG's staff allies yields a very different skill set in game than in canon).
So I don't know.
This issue of who knows the Stone's location and who put it there seems very important.
Why are Bella and Lucius all fired up about a "Gringotts robbery" if they know perfectly well where the Stone is? That would only make sense if the public needed an explanation for the thing's having disappeared, but it wasn't public knowledge. So, it seems to me, that if the LP and Death Eater faculty of Hogwarts have conspired to move the Stone from Flamel's Gringotts vault to Hogwarts there would be no need of a cover story about a "robbery" cooked up for the papers. If, on the other hand, the LP and Death Eaters were on the verge of seizing the Stone when it turned up missing from Gringotts because somebody with permission to access Flamel's vault got there first (Dumbledore/Hagrid, in canon; McG/unknown agent?, in game), then there's a reason to shout to the papers about a robbery in order to explain why MLE is firing up all its resources to shake down the goblins and search for some missing property.
Am I just really missing something? Why should I think that the LP knows where the Stone is?
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Date: 2008-11-04 03:14 am (UTC)In canon, a group of Hogwarts professors have collaborated to design the protective spells that keep the Stone hidden and inaccessible. The obvious parallel would be for a group of professors in this AU to have similarly schemed to hide and protect the Stone, but which ones? It would seem certain that such a collaboration would indicate Voldemort's knowledge of the Stone's location (because there aren't a large number of Order members on staff with the skills to create much in the way of protective wards for the Stone -- the identity of McG's staff allies yields a very different skill set in game than in canon).
So I don't know.
This issue of who knows the Stone's location and who put it there seems very important.
Why are Bella and Lucius all fired up about a "Gringotts robbery" if they know perfectly well where the Stone is? That would only make sense if the public needed an explanation for the thing's having disappeared, but it wasn't public knowledge. So, it seems to me, that if the LP and Death Eater faculty of Hogwarts have conspired to move the Stone from Flamel's Gringotts vault to Hogwarts there would be no need of a cover story about a "robbery" cooked up for the papers. If, on the other hand, the LP and Death Eaters were on the verge of seizing the Stone when it turned up missing from Gringotts because somebody with permission to access Flamel's vault got there first (Dumbledore/Hagrid, in canon; McG/unknown agent?, in game), then there's a reason to shout to the papers about a robbery in order to explain why MLE is firing up all its resources to shake down the goblins and search for some missing property.
Am I just really missing something? Why should I think that the LP knows where the Stone is?