TBAY: Lars is bright tonight (part 2 of 2)

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No: HPFGUIDX 87691

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Miller" 
<constancevigilance at y...> wrote:
 
> "But there is another puzzling thing about Quirrell."
> 
> "And that is ... ?"
> 
> "What happened to him? <snip> Dumbledore never says he died, only 
that he was left for dead. 
> Furthermore, Quirrell was fortified with unicorn's blood. Firenze 
> tells us, 'The blood of a unicorn will keep you alive, even if you 
> are an inch from death, but at a terrible price.'"

Now Neri:
Nice theory, but that part about Quirrell still being alive is not 
likely. We all saw him breaking into thousand pieces in the movie. It 
didn't look like something unicorn blood or even the elixir of life 
could fix. I know, I know, <ducks and runs for cover under a torrent 
of rotten pumpkins> we are talking about the *books* and the movies 
are *not* the books and they are *not* canon, but we also know that 
JKR inspects the movies and authorizes everything, so they would not 
stray too far from the books. If JKR was planning to spring Quirrell 
on us again in later books, she would have tipped WB to keep 
Quirrell's end off stage.

The rest of the theory does not depend in any way on Quirrell being 
alive, so it still floats well enough by me.

Neri