Quirrel and Scandinavia?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 87820

Berit wrote:

> <snip> For those of you who like details: The name Quirrel have a small 
> resemblance to the name "Quisling" (first three letters are the 
> same :-) which I am sure you all know... Vidkun Quisling turned a 
> traitor during the 2nd World War, governing Norway during wartime on 
> German orders. So being a "Quisling" is forever a synonym 
> for "traitor". So, hm, maybe Quirrel was a Norwegian traitor :-)


To me, "Quirrel" suggests "squirrel"--weak and trembling, an easy
victim for Voldemort (I can't account for the transformed Quirrel at
the end of SS/PS--maybe he's taken on some of Voldemort's personality
traits or maybe he's been paradoxically strengthened, as well as
corrupted, by drinking unicorn blood.) My guess is that he's English
and went to Hogwarts. A first name would help, but the Lexicon says
there's no confirmation for Slatero, the name used in the credits for
the movie, and I don't know of any other reference to his first name.
Odd, since Dumbledore addresses all of his employees and former
students by their given names. Maybe he never speaks directly to
Quirrel in Harry's hearing?

Carol