[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Literary Themes of the books

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 64099


--- Tim Regan <timregan at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups I wrote:
> > I don't  think we ever see a goodie (i.e. a
> current friend of 
> > Dumbledore's) kill anyone (is this true?). 
> 
> Sadly not. Harry does kill Quirrel. It's certainly
> justifiable as 
> self defense, but in the end it is an attack by
> Harry that kills him.
> 
> Quirrell rolled off him, his face blistering, too,
> and then Harry 
> knew:
> Quirrell couldn't touch his bare skin, not without
> suffering terrible
> pain -- his only chance was to keep hold of
> Quirrell, keep him in 
> enough
> pain to stop him from doing a curse.
> Harry jumped to his feet, caught Quirrell by the
> arm, and hung on as
> tight as he could. Quirrell screamed and tried to
> throw Harry off -- 
> the
> pain in Harry's head was building -- he couldn't see
> -- he could only
> hear Quirrell's terrible shrieks and Voldemort's
> yells of, "KILL HIM!
> KILL HIM!" and other voices, maybe in Harry's own
> head, 
> crying, "Harry!
> Harry!" (SS p.238)
> 
> Oh dear  and I really liked that theory.
>  
> Cheers,
> 
> Dumbledad
>


In GOF, Voldemort says that his servant (Quirrel) died
when he left his body.



Rebecca

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