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well I doubt just any first year could get through the obstacles. The trio got through because their combination of skills were useful for the tasks. Draco, Crabbe and Gyle couldnt have done it even if they were nice guys. But then again would the professors try toooo hard to protect it, I mean they could have concentrated on stopping powerful spells and completely overlooked the possibilty of simple spells being used. But then again the obstacles were incredibly difficult to get past unless you know how. You wouldnt have a clue how to get past Fluffy without Hagrids advice. A troll isnt the simplest thing to get past.Spotting the right key in a crowd and then catching it. The devils snare killed that guy at st mungos so its very dangerous. The potions needed an incredible amount of logic which hermione says alot of powerful wizards dont have an ounce of. And Dumbledore's is extreemly difficult to figure out. So in fact the chambers are in fact very difficult to get past.
Agree with you completely. The trio are a unique combination and only they could have got past all those obstacles. I also thought, after reading dark stuff like books 5 & 6, that the obstacles could have been a bit too easy, but, I mean, not many people could have won that chess game, or not drunk poison/wine or got burned by the flames leading to the last chamber, or caught the right key without sitting in that chamber for days and dying of starvation, or got past the troll, or got past Fluffy without knowledge of how to put him to sleep, or managed to identify/remember the properties of Devil's Snare while their friends were being strangled, or agreed to sacrifice themselves to allow their friends to go on... The respective characters and abilities of the trio allowed them to get to the stone where more powerful and learned witches and wizards would surely have failed.
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Though, that brings me to a theory I had always pondered ... if the thing was that the mirror would reveal the stone to someone who wanted to have it but didn't want to use it, why couldn't one of Voldemort's followers get the stone for him? They certainly would want it (to give to him), but they would never use it on themselves, nor be the ones who would use it for Voldemort.
Of course they would use it on themselves! Eternal life (so Voldemort could never kill them) and an endless supply of gold! Almost
any Death Eater would surely want to keep the Stone for themselves. Besides, Voldemort HAD no followers at the time... he didn't even have a body and so could not summon the Death Eaters until GoF. And besides, even if a Death Eater didn't use the Stone on themselves, they would still
need it to give it to Voldemort, so their intentions would not be pure. They would be indirectly using the Stone to increase their worth as his followers in Voldemort's eyes.