Whom did Voldy possess before Quirrell?

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 125707


Neri wrote:
> Whom did Voldy possess before Quirrell?
> 
> Here's a sentence that Quirrell!Mort says in the end of SS/PS, 
which has some interesting implications I failed to notice before:
> 
> SS/PS, Ch. 17 p. 293 US:
> "See what I have become?" the face said. "Mere shadow and 
vapour... I have form only when I can share another's body... but 
there have always been those willing to let me into their hearts and 
minds...
> 
> "Willing"? Hearts and minds"? This doesn't sound like some small
> animals and snakes. So whom did Voldy possess before Quirrell and 
was that before or during the time he was vapor? 
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Hannah:  Well, I always took this as more figurative than literal.  
When he says about people 'letting them into their hearts and minds' 
I took that to mean people prepared to believe in his cause, to 
follow him.   All those people that he'd 'always been able to 
charm.'  So I saw it as referring to the time before he was vapour!
mort.  Maybe it's also a reference to his use of Legilimency(looking 
into people's minds).  

Quirrel was just the latest example of a person whom LV was able to 
manipulate, except that this time, he had to let him into his heart 
and mind more literally, in the form of a possession.  That was how 
I understood it anyway.  I haven't got my copy of GoF at hand, but 
doesn't he talk about his time between GH and resurrection during 
his 'chief villain explains his evil plot' moment in the graveyard?  
I seem to remember that he hadn't possessed anyone before Quirrel.

Hannah