[HPforGrownups] Quirrel dead?

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 51235

On 31 Jan 2003 at 3:29, Eric Oppen wrote:

> Do we _know_ that Quirrel is dead?
> 
> Professor Dumbledore says that Voldemort "left Quirrel to die."
> 
> He does _not_ say that Quirrel is dead, in so many words.

Voldemort says he is dead - so I guess it depends on whether you believe him.

"'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.

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... he brought me back to this 
country, and after a while, I took possession of his body, to supervise him closely as he 
carried out my orders. But my plan failed. I did not manage to steal the Philosopher's 
Stone. I was not to be assured immortal life. I was thwarted... thwarted, once again, by 
Harry Potter...'

Silence once more; nothing was stirring, not even the leaves on the  yew tree. The 
Death Eaters were quite motionless, the glittering eyes in their masks fixed upon 
Voldemort, and upon Harry.

'The servant died when I left his body, and I was left as weak as ever I had been,'"

Goblet of Fire, page 567, Australian printing.

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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