The Mirror and the Heart

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No: HPFGUIDX 105440

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aggiepaddy" <aggie at r...> wrote:
>  
> > Kneasy:
> > Well, we can argue about this until the cows come home, but the fact
> > of the matter is that Quirrell did not want to use the Stone - 
> that's made quite clear in canon.    <Snippidy do dah, snippidy day>
> 
> 
> Me, Aggie:
> I'm sorry but I have to disagree with the statement that Quirrell 
> didn't want to use the stone. . . Forgive me if i'm wrong but hasn't 
> Quirrell got a Voldemort growing out the back of his head?! I would 
> say that for Voldy to return using the stone Quirrell WOULD have to 
> have used it.  
> 
> Loving the mirror ideas being thrown around!  We know from JKR 
> herself that Sirius's mirror plays an important future role.


No  problem with not agreeing - that's what makes this site fun, but:

"I see the Stone...I'm presenting it  to my  master...but where is it?"

>From the phrasing it's likely that in the Mirror he even sees Voldy as 
a separate being, not the horror sitting above his back collar stud.
Just  what plans Voldy had for setting up his own Elixir bottling
plant we don't know, but I'd bet that dumping Quirrell would be near
the top  of the list. If he used Q to make the Elixir, how would he
stop Q from becoming immortal too? 

It's one of those episodes in the books that appear straight-forward
on first reading, but the more you think about it, the more convoluted
it can get. Just how did Voldy intend to sort out the  nuts and bolts of
Elixir production? It's probable  that we'll never find out since it's very
long odds that it'll be critical for future plot lines. So I'm taking the
easy route -  strict canon. Q says this; DD says that; they don't match;
ergo - something funny going on. It's called paranoia.

Kneasy