Quirrell Report

[severelysigune]

This was more or less straightforward. Of the 164 posts I found in 
category 2.3.6. "Professor Quirrell", I propose to reject 88. 

The main body of those are posts dealing with the question, 'Is 
Snape's cover blown after his hunt for Quirrell in PS?'. When they 
actually said something about Quirrell himself or his motivations, I 
kept them, naturally; but the majority really only just make mention 
of him and add nothing to an analysis of his character.
(The nice thing about this was that, despite having voluntarily 
deprived myself of coding Snape, I got to read quite a lot of Snape 
posts anyway... <g>)

The second group of rejected posts are repetitive ones. They address 
1) the question of why Quirrell could not take the PS from the Mirror 
of Erised, seeing he was not planning to use it himself - he was 
going to give it to Voldy;
and
2) the turban business (when did he actually begin to wear the thing) 
and the confusion over the start of Voldy's possession business that 
was caused by the Medium That Must Not Be Named.

A few stray posts that deal with spells Quirrell performs (e.g. 
wandless magic) have also been rejected when they added nothing about 
dear Q's character.

Just something I wondered about: shouldn't the Quirrell category have 
its own SUCCESS code? I know it's been filed under Snape so far - but 
since it's Quirrell who does the drugging, I personally feel the 
acronym belongs to him, not Snape. However, that's really a minor 
point - I can just cross-code to Snape's SUCCESS, of course (or 
rather, that's how these posts *have been* coded, rightly so).

Finally, a general question for the moment I start coding again (that 
won't be tomorrow - I have to carry out this Quirrell-pruning and 
then I still have a few Slytherins waiting for me): if you check an 
acronym, are you supposed to cross-code to the theory's main 
character it involves, too? I mean, if you encounter, say, GEORGE, 
it's quite obvious that the post should be about Snape, so does 
Snape's category need separate checking?

Eva/Sigune
~who is glad to say she liked Quirrelling FAR better than 
Lockharting :-).