[HPforGrownups] Harry dying

[the.gremlin at verizon.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 49140

snapesrighthand wrote:
"Did Quirrel actually die in the book?  I know he did in the movie but... I do not remember Quirrel actually dying... I thought he was in the hospital wing with Harry?  Am I reading too much fanfiction?"

"Then . . . four years ago . . . the means for my return seemed assured. A wizard -- young, foolish, and gullible --wandered across my path in the forest I had made my home. <snip>. . .I took  posession of his body, to supervise him closely as he carried out my orders. But my plan failed. <snip again> *The servant died when I left his body*, and I was left as weak as ever I had been" (GoF, US Paperback, 654, emphasis mine).

-Acire, who thinks that this ought to qualify her as a L.O.O.N., considering the fact that she used a copy of GoF that has been waiting to be returned to the bookstore because it was a birthday gift from a friend who did not realize GoF was already owned. That, or maybe this means she needs a life.