Quirrell

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At 10:08 AM 11/29/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >Agreed. The stammer was awful and he didn't work as a villain at all.

My friend who came to see the movie with me, had read the first couple of 
chapters of SS to his daughter, and had *no* idea what the ending was. All 
though the movie he was *sure* it was Snape, because "kids books never have 
big twists in them like that!" and "Quirrell never acted like the bad 
guy!!" He went back to see it a second time, just so he could pick out all 
the clues...like in the Leaky Cauldron, when Quirrell won't shake his hand 
(not in the book, but a nice touch, Voldemort's influence? Does V know that 
Harry's touch might be damaging? Or not wanting to reveal his presence 
through direct contact?) and the first time Harry's scar hurts, he's 
looking at Snape, but Snape is talking to Quirrell, who has his back to 
Harry, so Harry's *facing* Voldemort! Lots of other little clues...

About the flying at the end, it wasn't in the book, but it didn't jar me at 
all. I would expect a DADA teacher to be able to do things like move 
quickly in unexpected ways, and do larger spells without a wand. Or it 
could have been that packing around Voldemort endowed Quirrell with some of 
his powers.

Eleri
Eleri Hamilton
Chronological Grownup
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