Snape and Quirrell - Was: Harry's spoiled bratedness.

[darrin_burnett]

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> > Of course, that still doesn't explain how Harry's scar didn't hurt
> > during the rest of the year when he was in Quirrell's class. Did 
JKR
> > happen to explain that?

Margaret: 
 
> I would have to assume that Quirrell normally didn't turn his
> back on his class.  The twinge came when the =back= of Quirrell's
> head was facing Harry.
> 
> (And hey, if I taught at Hogwarts, I wouldn't =ever= turn my back
> on a class that might contain a Fred or George Weasley, or their
> ilk!  :) )


So, until the Forbidden Forest scene, when he catches Quirrell 
drinking unicorn blood, Harry never happens to be facing the back of 
Quirrell's head? That seems unlikely.

I am re-reading the passage now, on PS, UK page 94.

"Prof. Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talkoing to a teacher with 
greasy black hair, a hooked nose and sallow skin. It happened very 
suddnely. The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban and 
straight into Harry's eyes - and a sharp pain shot across the scar on 
harry's forehead."

OK, that seems like Harry was looking at the side of Quirrell's head, 
rather than the back, but let's assume for the minute that Quirrell 
had turned all the way around in his chair to talk to Snape.

Perhaps the pain was because Voldemort was only "active" at certain 
times and the Feast happened to be one of those times. The Forest 
scene another. That's a simple explanation. :)

Or ... perhaps the pain, which we now know to be V-Mort's anger, that 
Harry was feeling at the Feast was not directed at him, but at Snape, 
which again, makes me question whether Snape can truly be a double-
agent if V-Mort knows of his previous betrayal. And that makes me 
wonder what Snape's job out there truly is.

Darrin