LV is the monkey, but who is grinding the organ?

arcum42 Arcum_Dagsson at celticwind.zzn.com
Fri Nov 21 06:19:38 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 85612

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katrina" <patnkatng at c...>
wrote:
> > > >Katrina wrote:
> > 
> > I found no reference in 
> > > > SS/PS that Quirrel was killed.  
> > > 
> > JJPandy's wrote:
> > I remember being unsure of Quirrel's fate until in book 5, 
> > > Harry and the gang were speculating on the new DADA teacher and 
> > Harry listed off the fates of the previous 4.  It was something 
> > like "one dead (must be referring to Quirrel...
> > 
> > Berit wrote:
> > 
> > Here's a reference from CoS p. 216 British Version (Dumbledore's 
> > words to Harry):
> > "He [Voldemort] left Quirrel to die; he shows just as little
mercy 
> to 
> > his followers as his enemies."
> >
> 
> Katrina again:
> 
> OK, but -as Geoff pointed out in #85494 - there's still no evidence 
> that *Harry* killed Quirrell.  It could have been Dumbledore.  It 
> could have been the shock of Voldemort leaving his body, for that 
> matter.  It could have been the Unicorn blood catching up with him, 
> for all we know.

Also, Voldemort himself said:

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

In GOF, in the graveyard scene, which seems to imply that one caused
the other, though not definitively...

--Arcum





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