[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort's Resurrection WAS The Spying Game and the Shrieking Shack

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 39833


Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 3:16:44 PM, alhewison wrote:

a> Actually, I disagree here, although I admit that canon is confusing. 
a> Quirrell is not introduced as a new teacher, which he probably would 
a> have been had he just taken up the post. Also, when Harry first meets 
a> Quirrell in the Leaky Cauldron Hagrid tells him that Quirrell *is* a 
a> teacher at Hogwarts, rather than he is going to be a teacher at 
a> Hogwarts. Finally, when Harry asks Percy who the teacher sitting next 
a> to Quirrell is, during the banquet, Percy says (memory here not 
a> verbatim), so you already know Professor Quirrell. This implies to me 
a> that Percy already knows Quirrell, which he probably wouldn't if 
a> Quirrell was just starting.

In addition, in the ever-popular graveyard scene, Voldy, when he gets
to Quirrell in his "How I Did It" story, says, "A wizard ... wandered
across my path... Oh, he seemed the very chance I had been dreaming
of... for he was a teacher at Dumbledore's school... he was easy to
bend to my will..."

Note he says, "he WAS a teacher" as opposed to, "he WAS GOING TO BE
a teacher", implying that he had already been teaching there.

On another note -- Does it seem as strange to you as it does
to me how easy it was for V to brainwash Q?

-- 
Dave