Was Quirrell really a willing participant or struggling against Voldemort ?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88033

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 1/2/2004 5:18:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
"vmonte" <vmonte at y...> writes:
> >Sorry this may be a stupid question but was Quirrell a willing 
> >follower of Voldemort or was he struggling against the dark side?
> 
> I think he was seduced by the Dark Side.  I always think of the
movie The Mummy when reading these books -- "It is better to be the
right hand of the Devil than in his path."  I think that some of the
general supporters of LV were just afraid of him.
>  
> > <snippity snip snip>
> 
> >Is it possible that Quirrell was attempting to fight off Voldemort, 
> >but in the end was not able to? 
> 
> I thought so.  At the beginning at least.  Not many people *really*
want to join the Dark Side (exceptions in the Potterverse being most
of Slytherin house).  I don't think Pettigrew was planning on being a
Death Eater (speaking of which, he *is* a DE, right?  I just can't see
him in the inner circle with Lucius and Co.)  At the end Quirrel might
have been a true blue follower of LV.  Dumbledore tells Ginny in CoS
that far older and wiser wizards have been tricked by LV (not an exact
quote, of course).
> 
> Oryomai

Quirrell was easy prey for Voldemort, just as Ginny was for Tom
Riddle: "young, foolish, and gullible," "easy to bend to my will" (GoF
654 Am. ed.). Somehow he carries Voldemort back home with him but
after his failure to get the stone, he's literally possessed.
Nevertheless, he maintains his own identity, and unlike Ginny in
SS/PS, seems to know exactly what he's doing. I questioned in another
post how much of the stammering and fainting is an act and how much is
real; how much is acting out what Voldemort wants him to do and how
much is real terror. By the end of SS/PS, where he seems oddly
stronger but is still afraid of his master, he seems wholly corrupted,
cursed by the unicorn blood but also apparently quite content, even
proud, to be the servant of evil. 

Carol, who respectfully disagrees with Constance Vigilance about
Qiorrell returning as a good guy but does wonder how having Voldemort
leave his body could cause him to die