Unicorn Blood (WAS: Re: Quirrell's Cause of Death)

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 85701

Carol: 

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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,

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


I have a (probably not) new theory.  Maybe it was the reverse. Maybe the 
unicorn blood kept him alive.  Ok... 

Somewhere in GoF (can't find the book ;_;) Voldemort says that he had to live 
off animals who would soon die because they could not handle possession.  I 
would imagine that a human (especially a wizard) could handle possession 
longer, but the possessor would still be 'feeding' off them/their life.  Perhaps the 
unicorn blood was really meant to replenish Quirrell, Voldie's host, so that 
Voldie could stay inside him longer. 

I think Voldemort was killing him from the moment he possessed him.  By the 
time we reach the end of the book the supply of unicorn blood has run out 
and/or the 'poison' has taken effect on Quirrell. 

Also, if I'm right and Voldemort was feeding on Quirrell's 'life energy', 
maybe before the end he had only been doing it bit by bit...taking just enough so 
that he could survive. Then, at the end when he wants to talk to Potter and 
after when he gets enraged he uses up Quirrell's life. In other words--sucked 
him dry.  

~Cassie-hoping that makes sense~ 


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