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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\'s a stupid idea, because \'\'it\'s a potion made by Voldemort\'\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\\\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\\\'s a stupid idea, because \\\'\\\'it\\\'s a potion made by Voldemort\\\'\\\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \\\"he\\\'s much less important than Harry\\\".\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
* In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.
* Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to cover-up his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.
* Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore. If this part of the example\\\'s going to stay, I think it should refer to Dumbledore as the idiot, although there is the factor of Dumbledore expecting that he\\\'ll die any day now.
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
* In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.
* Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to cover-up his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.
* Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore. If this part of the example\\\'s going to stay, I think it should refer to Dumbledore as the idiot, although there is the factor of Dumbledore expecting that he\\\'ll die any day now.
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\'s a stupid idea, because \'\'it\'s a potion made by Voldemort\'\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\\\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\\\'s a stupid idea, because \\\'\\\'it\\\'s a potion made by Voldemort\\\'\\\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \\\"he\\\'s much less important than Harry\\\".\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
* In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.\\\\\\\\
* Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to cover-up his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.\\\\\\\\
* Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore. If this part of the example\\\'s going to stay, I think it should refer to Dumbledore as the idiot, although there is the factor of Dumbledore expecting that he\\\'ll die any day now.
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
* In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.\\\\\\\\
* Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to cover-up his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.\\\\\\\\
* Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore. If this part of the example\\\'s going to stay, I think it should refer to Dumbledore as the idiot, although there is the factor of Dumbledore expecting that he\\\'ll die any day now.
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\'s a stupid idea, because \'\'it\'s a potion made by Voldemort\'\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\\\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\\\'s a stupid idea, because \\\'\\\'it\\\'s a potion made by Voldemort\\\'\\\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \\\"he\\\'s much less important than Harry\\\".\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
* In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.\\\\\\\\
* Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to coverup his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.\\\\\\\\
* Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore. If this part of the example\\\'s going to stay, I think it should refer to Dumbledore as the idiot, although there is the factor of Dumbledore expecting that he\\\'ll die any day now.
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
* In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.\\\\\\\\
* Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to coverup his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.\\\\\\\\
* Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore. If this part of the example\\\'s going to stay, I think it should refer to Dumbledore as the idiot, although there is the factor of Dumbledore expecting that he\\\'ll die any day now.
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\'s a stupid idea, because \'\'it\'s a potion made by Voldemort\'\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\\\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\\\'s a stupid idea, because \\\'\\\'it\\\'s a potion made by Voldemort\\\'\\\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \\\"he\\\'s much less important than Harry\\\".\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
1. In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.\\\\\\\\
2. Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to coverup his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.\\\\\\\\
3. Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore. If this part of the example\\\'s going to stay, I think it should refer to Dumbledore as the idiot, although there is the factor of Dumbledore expecting that he\\\'ll die any day now.
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
1. In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.\\\\\\\\
2. Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to coverup his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.\\\\\\\\
3. Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore. If this part of the example\\\'s going to stay, I think it should refer to Dumbledore as the idiot, although there is the factor of Dumbledore expecting that he\\\'ll die any day now.
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\'s a stupid idea, because \'\'it\'s a potion made by Voldemort\'\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \
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* Harry and DD infiltrate the vault where Voldemort\\\'s Horcrux is kept. The thing is lying on the bottom of a basin full of potion that cannot be removed by any mean, other than drinking it. When Harry, quite reasonably, notices that it\\\'s a stupid idea, because \\\'\\\'it\\\'s a potion made by Voldemort\\\'\\\', DD reassures him that V would want to interrogate the intruder, so, while the potion would most likely cause pain, weakness and other debuffs, it would not be lethal. He also insists that he (DD) has to be the one to drink it, because \\\"he\\\'s much less important than Harry\\\".\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
1. In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.\\\\\\\\
2. Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to coverup his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.\\\\\\\\
3. Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore.
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' Harry would then just as reasonably notice that it\\\'s a \\\'\\\'tremendously\\\'\\\' stupid idea, because if DD is right, then there must also be an alarm to inform V about the intrusion, and he\\\'s either on his way to the cave or already there, waiting outside for DD to drink and keel over. Or at least there might be other wards installed to finish off the weakend thief. Obviously, in such situation it\\\'s a suicide to let DD drink the potion.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' Being too well conditioned by that point to think by himself, he just goes along with that asinine plan.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'You\\\'d Expect:\\\'\\\'\\\' The cave defence to actually work the aforementioned way. There either should\\\'ve been an alarm, or the potion should\\\'ve been lethal. Scratch that, it should\\\'ve been both!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Instead:\\\'\\\'\\\' It works in the most bizzarely convoluted and ineffective way possible. The potion causes a terrible thirst in the victim, wards prevent water from being conjured, forcing the victim to drink from the surrounding lake, which causes a horde of zombies to rise up and drown the thief. Except that it won\\\'t work if the thief uses another creature to drink the potion. You cannot even argue that V omitted this possibility, because that was exactly how he tested the potion - by having someone else drink it! And since there\\\'re no alarms, nothing prevents the thief from leaving and returning with the spare. And the zombies proove to be rather crappy guards, as DD, even in his weakend state manages to fend them off. Fail on all sides.
I\\\'m not going to consider removing this example just yet, since the last few times I did that resulted in edit wars. I am going to point out a few things though:
1. In book 7, Voldemort is shown believing that he\\\'d automatically be able to \\\"sense\\\" one of his horcruxes being destroyed, as long as he has a physical body. It\\\'s BS of course, but as far as he knows, there\\\'s no real need for him to place any kind of alarm spells on his horcrux hiding places.\\\\\\\\
2. Relating to the above point, Voldemort assumes that because he did his best to coverup his past, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, it\\\'s very unlikely anyone\\\'s going to find the horcrux in the first place. So again, no real need for alarms.\\\\\\\\
3. Before they\\\'d gone to the cave, Dumbledore had made Harry swear to obey his orders, whatever they were. Harry knows he can argue and disagree all he likes, but it won\\\'t stop Dumbledore.
