[HPforGrownups] Re: Quirrell's Cause of Death was: (LV is the monkey, but...

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 85677

In a message dated 11/21/2003 6:42:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
patnkatng at cox.net writes:

>  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. 
> 

I think it was a combination of things.  Voldemort feeding off Quirrell's 
'life force', the unicorn blood, and Potter getting touchy-feely with him when he 
discovered Quirrell couldn't stand to be touched by him.  

~Cassie~ 


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