There were too many points to hit and too many things to say and too many words swirling around in her head, so Alice chose only one question to answer. The one about what she'd protect the Stone with instead tickled her fancy, so that one it was.

"I think," she started, raising her hand, "that they shoulda used an Acromantula or a Sphinx. They're used to guard treasure, you know? Or at least some sort of protective spell. Couldn't they have put it in a secluded place and then cast a Fidelius Charm or something?" But it was an utterly ridiculous idea to try and hide something in a school full of nosy children. Of course a plan like that would fail.