Speculation: What's being guarded on the third floor?

[zorb]

Hello, fellow alt_fen! Since I don't appear to be alone here (yay!), I thought I'd kick off a discussion on the mystery just starting to unfold.

Now, of course, we all know what was canonically on the third floor, and what it was guarding. But how much of that still holds in this universe, with corporeal Voldemort and the Ministry essentially in control of Hogwarts?

From Harry and Draco's conversation, it still sounds like it's Fluffy - perhaps not named as such ;-) - guarding the trap door. And I can certainly imagine that Voldemort would still be on his quest for immortality. It doesn't seem like Hogwarts would be the wisest place to hide the Stone, though, with DEs all around and within it, and lacking the teachers' protections.

What do you think?

Comments

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Looks like it was from Lily (http://alt-mcgonagall.livejournal.com/1782.html?thread=8182#t8182). And his mom never delivered it... why? Because Lily was already dead by then, and she wanted to spare him? Because his mother was on Voldemort's side and was against Lily for being Muggleborn? Maybe his mother just forgot, and there's nothing else to it.