[HPforGrownups] Quirrel query

[Katherine Coble]

No: HPFGUIDX 129619


On May 28, 2005, at 1:38 AM, quigonginger wrote:

> This has just been itching in my  mind.  I have been digging in the
>  archives (somewhere in the 49600's) and they had a huge thread on
>  Quirrel and the Halloween troll incident.  It occured to me (but not
>  to the listees involved at the time, unfortunately) that DD should
>  have been suspicious of Quirrel at that point.
>
>  Why?  DD set up the protections around the Stone.  Quirrel had used a
>  troll as one of the protections.  (Did they feed the poor thing?  And
>  who got *that* pleasant task?  And why didn't Hermione freak out
>  over "False Imprisionment"?) 
>
>  <shakes head to get back to the point> Hagrid knew who else was
>  protecting the Stone, but not necessarily how they protected it.  DD
>  certainly knew what each had done to protect the Stone.
>
>  Why didn't DD wonder that Quirrel, who had gotten a troll *into the
>  obsticle course*, later fainted at the prospect of the presence of a
>  troll in the dungeons? 
>
>  Any takers?  Has this been discussed and I missed it?  CV?
>
>  Ginger, listening to Meatloaf.
>

Hey, how about that?!?! I'm listening to Meatloaf, too!  Gotta love 
that iTunes.  8.4 uninterrupted hours of Meatloaf!!!!!!

Anyway, I think perhaps DD was assuming that Quirrell passed out not 
because of the troll but because he ran all the way to the Great Hall 
from the dungeons and was in not the best of health to begin with.


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