Touching Quirrel's hand

[swimminwoman86 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 40905

I just re-read Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone for the hundreth time(ok 
maybe not that many times but it't been a lot), and it struck me odd that in 
the beginning of the book, Professor Quirrell shakes Harry's hand, yet this 
has no effect at all on him. Shouldn't Harry's touch have blistered his hand 
the way that it did at the end of the book? Or did it not blister him because 
he wasn't feeling so full of hate and rage at that time? Yet, I would think 
that Quirrell would have some hate and anger towards Harry since he is 
Voldemort's loyal subject and Voldemort just happens to be a parasite on the 
back of his head. Maybe at the time, Voldemort was not yet living on 
Quirrell. Why, then would he have been wearing it when they first met at The 
Leaky Cauldron, then? Even so, why does Quirrell seem nervous when they first 
meet? The way Quirrell says "Who would suspect p-p-poor st-stuttering 
P-Professor Quirrell?", it implies to me that it was all an act. Any thoughts 
on this?
~Cindy~


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