Whom did Voldy possess before Quirrell?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 125728


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jina haymaker 
<collegegirl200521 at y...> wrote:

Jina
> If there was another person before Quirrell (which I'm not too sure
>  there was) that Voldy shared a body with then I would have to 
> think that it was a faithful death eater. And when the DE died 
> Voldy would still live (as we saw in the SS/PS).

Geoff:
If I read things correctly, there wasn't anyone before Quirrell.

Voldemort speaking....

'"Nevertheless, I was as powerless as the weakest creature alive and 
without the means to help myself... for I had no body and every spell 
which might have helped me required the use of a wand...

I remember only forcing myself, sleeplessly, endlessly, second by 
second to exist.. I settled in a faraway place, in a forest and I 
waited... surely, one of my faithful Death Eaters would try to find 
me... one of them would come and perform the magic I could not, to 
restore me to a body... but I waited in vain..."

The shiver ran once more around the circle of listening Death Eaters. 
Voldemor let the silence spiral horribly before continuing. "Only one 
power remained to me. I cuold possess the bodies of others. But I 
dared not go where other humans were plentiful for I knew that the 
Aurors were still abroad and searching for me. i sometimes inhabited 
animals - snakes, of course, being my preference - but I was little 
better off inside them than as pure spirit fort heir bodies were ill-
adapted to perform magic... and my possession of them shortened their 
lives; none of them lasted long...

Then... four years ago... the means for my return semed assured. A 
wizard - young, foolish and gullible - wandered acorss my path in the 
forest I had made my home. Oh, he seemed the very chance I had been 
dreaming of... for he was a teacher at Dumbledore's school... he was 
easy to bend to my will... he brought me back to this country and 
after a while, I took possession of his body, to supervise him 
closely as he carried out my orders. But my plan failed. I did not 
manage to steal the Philosopher's Stone. I was not to be assured 
immortal life. I was thwarted... thwarted, once again, by Harry 
Potter..."'

(GOF "The Death eaters" pp.566-67 UK edition)

It looks to me as if the only human he ever possessed completely was  
Quirrell because his possession of Harry in OOTP was very brief and 
Ginny's possession in COS was, of course, by Diary!Tom.