Resurrection (sort of)

[Constance Vigilance]

No: HPFGUIDX 162238

> bboyminn:
> 
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> Quirrel is absolutely dead. While we aren't given the
> details, there is no reason to think that Dumbledore 
> didn't find Quirrel's body in the last chamber when he
> found Harry there. 


CV: Actually, the only thing we know for sure is that Dumbledore 
found Quirrell ALIVE in the chamber. I'm at work and don't have my 
books, but he says something like:

"I arrived just in time to pull Quirrell off you."

Quirrell had to have been putting up a fight to have to be "pulled" 
off of Harry.

Later on in the hospital, Dumbledore says (again, paraphrased)

"Voldemort cares little for his followers, he left Quirrell to die."

NEVER does Dumbledore say Quirrell is dead. Only that Voldemort 
THINKS Quirrell is dead because he intended it so.

Steve/bboyminn: So, DEAD, no presumption about it. 

CV: We'll just have to disagree about this. But there is NO 
conclusive proof.

Steve/bboyminn: Plus, what possible purpose could he now serve in an 
already over complicated plot with far far far too many subplots to 
resolve. None, I say.
 
CV: Agreed, the plot is massively overcomplicated. Too many 
characters and too many objects. There should be lots of Chekov's 
gunfire in the final book. But since JKR has set that as a pattern, 
doesn't it sort of make a resurrection of a "cold" character even 
MORE likely? Don't forget that he is a walking representation of the 
god Janus (the two-faced god) who is the ruler of beginnings *and 
endings*. I think we will just have to wait and see.

Steve/bboyminn:  I know lots of people are hoping for one character 
or another to return from the dead, or technically dead, and I am 
hoping for it too, but I think the chances are very very very very 
very very very slim.
 
You heard it here first.
 
CV: OK.