Quirrel query

[ginny343]

No: HPFGUIDX 129634

Ginger:
> > 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. 

Linda:
I recently posted something similar to this.  I have been wondering 
this too.

Ginger:
> > (Did they feed the poor thing?  And who got *that* pleasant 
> > task?  And why didn't Hermione freak out over "False 
> > Imprisionment"?) 

Linda: 
I wonder if every time they had to feed it, if that person had to 
pass through the other spells to get there?  I'm assuming maybe 
trolls don't have to eat very often, or maybe there is a different 
way to get to the room where the troll was . . . obviously then 
Dumbledore would have been the only one to know about that.  Or 
maybe the house elves?  Yes, a bet the house elves did were 
responsible for feeding it.  They seem to be able to get around in 
Hogwarts and can make food magically appear on tables, so they 
should be able to do it somewhere else.

Hermione probably didn't have a chance to freak out about this 
because by the time she learned about it, it was over.  However, it 
might have made her start thinking about the rights of other 
creatures.

Ginger:
> > <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? 


Katherine:
> 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.

Linda:
Seems to me DD would wonder if Quirrel was so talented with trolls 
to get one into the obstacle course, why did he run all the way back 
to the Great Hall to report it?  DD should have been suspicious, if 
not of his fainting, of the fact that he didn't just do something 
about it!  Even if he felt he needed backup, he could have at least 
watched it and locked it in a room or something.  (Harry and Ron 
managed to do that pretty easily.)

Also, Quirrel had a "look of terror" on his face, which implies he 
was scared (or pretending to be), which DD must have known he wasn't.

Linda (who still thinks there is something from SS/PS that she is 
overlooking that will be important later)