The best reason for Dumbledore to trust Snape (Lily?)

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 137874

Gatta:
>Which leaves me wondering if that act is one of those apparent
"mistakes" like Harry's (for example, killing Professor Quirrel,
surely something a student would not normally get away with),

CathyD:
Sorry, I had to snip your whole post to get to this.  Harry didn't kill Quirrell. Voldemort did.  Quirrell was still alive and fighting Harry for the Stone when Dumbledore arrived.  The movie really pollutes this scene, IMO, especially as it doesn't show DD arriving at all.  Quirrell kind of breaks apart and falls into a heap after Harry touches his face, but that doesn't happen in the book. In the book Harry touching Quirrell, or Quirrell touching Harry, causes Quirrell great pain and blistering as though burned.  "Quirrell did not manage to take it from you.  I arrived in time to prevent that....I arrived just in time to pull Quirrell off you...."  Then Dumbledore says "He [LV} left Quirrell to die; he shows just as little mercy to his followers as his enemies."

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