Quirrel's Name

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88034

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> arcum42 wrote:
> Dumbledore never addresses Quirrell directly. After Quirrell's
> defeat, he calls Quirrell "Professor Quirrell" twice, and just 
> Quirrell" four times, so we have no canon to speak of for the 
> professors first name. Curiously, he calls Harry on saying 
> "Snape" instead of "Professor Snape" just after calling Professor 
> Quirrell nothing but "Quirrell" three times in a row...
>  
> vmonte responds:
> In the movie Quirell's first name is listed in the credits as 
> Quirenius.  His First name is not listed in the books.
> 
> vmonte :)


That's odd. The Lexicon says that the movie credits him as Slatero
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/quirrell.html but now that you mention it, I
think I do recall seeing him listed in the credits as Quirenius (which
is at least nicely alliterative like Severus Snape and Minerva
McGonagall). I wonder if JKR authorized that name. (BTW, the IMDb,
identified as the source for the name Slatero, now lists the character
merely as Professor Quirrell. Maybe the Lexicon should be updated?) In
any case, Quirenius sounds Latin and, as a number of British wizards
have Latin first names, we still don't have any basis for thinking of
him as anything other than English. (I'm thinking of CV and her
efforts to link Quirrell to Norway.)

Carol, with apologies for being somewhat OT