Quirrel and Scandinavia?

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 87833

Carol wrote:
> 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. (snip)
> Carol

Ginger throws in:

I don't know if this has any bearing of Quirrel's nationality, but I 
was getting my muffler replaced (and reading to beguile the time) and 
noticed that Quirrel actually *says the name* Voldemort!  (US 
paperback p. 291).  This is at the end right before he takes off his 
turban, so he is not playing the trembling wreck role.  Malfoy and 
Snape don't even say the name.  He knows the LV is right there on his 
head to hear him.  We know that LV created the name to have one that 
wizards would fear to speak (CoS).  

So Quirrel calls him Voldemort.  Norweigans eat lutefisk.  Both take 
guts.  May not be a connection, but his using the name may be a 
helpful hint for you, so I thought I'd throw it in.

Ginger, who escaped yet another Christmastide without being 
confronted with lutefisk.