Quirrell's Cause of Death was: (LV is the monkey, but who is grinding )

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 85669

> Katrina wrote:
> I found no reference in SS/PS that Quirrel was killed.  
> 
> > 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
> 
> 
Then Carol wrote:

> I found the same quote and was going to post it but you beat me to 
it.
> The page reference is GoF 654, Am. ed., in "The Death Eaters."
> Voldemort didn't have the sorceror's stone, but he must have left
> Quirrell's body anyway because the disguise had been exposed and
> Quirrell was no more use to him. The question, for me, is why 
Quirrell
> died when Voldemort dispossessed him. It must, as someone in this
> thread suggested, have been the unicorn blood, unless Voldemort 
simply
> willed him to die. Or maybe he was a sort of parasite who had 
sucked
> Quirrell's life away along with his integrity.

Katrina, again:

Yes, I found the reference shortly after I posted.  It was on the 
page after I stopped looking.  Figures. :P

Actually, the suggestion about Quirrell either dying because 
Voldemort left him or from drinking Unicorn blood was from my 
earlier post, too.

Seems to me that you're probably pretty close with your parasite 
description.  I wouldn't expect Voldemort to care what happened to 
his "host."  I'd bet there wasn't much left of Quirrell after 
Voldemort took off.