Voldemort's defeat

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94391

Puja wrote:
JKR often hints at Harry's defeat. However in PS she shows LV 
drinking unicorn blood (thru Prof. Quirrel). Drinking unicorn blood 
gives the person "a half life, a cursed life". Does this imply that 
LV will definitely be defeated or did that refer to Prof Quirrel 
having a half and cursed life because he was the one drinking unicorn 
blood. 

Djr (I think!) responded: 
> Actually, wasn't it Voldemort who drank the unicorn blood? Remember, 
> his head was attached to Quirrel's? I'm with you in looking for any 
> excuse for Harry not to die, but it was Voldemort who said "see what 
> I have become; a parasite.....have to live off another!"

Carol:
If that's the case, Quirrell must be a very flexible acrobat able to
do a backbend so that LV can drink the blood. I think Quirrell had to
drink it, just as he would have had to take the stone and kill Harry.
Voldemort, with his face sticking out the back of Quirrell's head,
would have been unable to do any of these things himself. The "other"
that Voldemort had to live off was Quirrell, not the unicorn. Just
possibly the unicorn blood affected Voldemort, too, but since he was
already living something less than a half life, it didn't much matter.
In fact, even with his resurrected body, he's still only "surviving."
He can only "live" if Harry is killed. But given the unicorn blood and
everything else, maybe he can't live at all and is doomed to die
through Harry (no guesses from me how that will happen).

Regarding Quirrell, we had a discussion a while back about when
Quirrell became evil and how innocent he was to begin with. IMO, he
was too weak-willed to resist LV's possession of him, a half-willing
victim who regarded LV as his master and obeyed him as much out of
duty as terror. I don't think he became completely, irredeemably evil
until he killed the unicorn, and when the blood touched *his* lips
(not Voldemort's unless Q. was a contortionist) he began that cursed
half-life. So maybe he was nearly dead when he tried to kill Harry,
alive only because the parasite Voldemort was still inside him, and
when Voldemort left Quirrell's body, he took that half-life with him,
killing Quirrell. (It wasn't Harry's touch that killed him; that's
movie contamination.) 

Carol