Kariman looked exceptionally forceful. Without further ado, she summoned the other school governors, and the questioning of Dumbledore began at once.
"There has been one point in this matter that I have found deeply difficult to understand from the very beginning," Kariman said. "It is also one of the key issues in this educational hearing. I would like to know: was the Philosopher's Stone Hogwarts property? Was it the students' property?"
"Kariman, you may speak plainly," Rasim said.
"If the Philosopher's Stone was neither the students' property nor Hogwarts property, then I would like to know why it needed to be protected at Hogwarts."
"We can understand Professor Dumbledore accepting his friend Nicolas Flamel's commission to protect the Philosopher's Stone from Voldemort. But why did he place the Philosopher's Stone at Hogwarts? Why did he have the professors set traps to protect it?"
"From the accounts given earlier by several young wizards and Professor Severus Snape, we can see that the traps protecting the Philosopher's Stone included a three-headed hellhound, Devil's Snare, a troll, transfigured chess pieces, and poison. Any one of these could have caused a student's death."
"In fact, Mr. Ron Weasley was injured by the transfigured chess pieces, while the troll nearly caused casualties among several young wizards and sparked unrest throughout the school."
"Protecting the Philosopher's Stone was Professor Dumbledore's personal promise and responsibility. But was ordering the professors to assist him not an abuse of his authority as headmaster? And was allowing students to face such danger not an utter disregard for their safety?!"
"Professor Murphy," Kariman said, turning to Murphy, "I heard that you previously warned Professor McGonagall about this, correct?"
"Yes," Murphy said. "When Professor McGonagall approached me about participating in the task of protecting the Philosopher's Stone, I raised this point. Those