True, I didn’t look at it that way. It seems more likely that that’s correct—“Why those exact five?”—but why would Quirrell find it so amusing?
edit: Maybe Voldemort has already hidden his Horcruxes in just those manners—we already suspect that he launched one into space. In that case the riddle may be—given that Harry and Voldemort think in precisely the same way, how can Voldemort think of a hiding place that Harry wouldn’t think of himself?
edit2: It’s out of character for them to come naturally to Harry, but not to Voldemort. Voldemort is into that kind of superstitious ambiance—e.g. he wanted precisely 7 Horcruxes, because it’s a lucky number. Harry is part Voldemort, so that’s why they slipped into his subconscious.
True, I didn’t look at it that way. It seems more likely that that’s correct—“Why those exact five?”—but why would Quirrell find it so amusing?
edit: Maybe Voldemort has already hidden his Horcruxes in just those manners—we already suspect that he launched one into space. In that case the riddle may be—given that Harry and Voldemort think in precisely the same way, how can Voldemort think of a hiding place that Harry wouldn’t think of himself?
edit2: It’s out of character for them to come naturally to Harry, but not to Voldemort. Voldemort is into that kind of superstitious ambiance—e.g. he wanted precisely 7 Horcruxes, because it’s a lucky number. Harry is part Voldemort, so that’s why they slipped into his subconscious.
*shrug* maybe I’m grasping at straws.