DD killed Quirrell? (was: re:Scrimgeour/WerewolfBites/Legilimency/DDsecrecy)

[Sherry]

No: HPFGUIDX 179807

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
>
> lizzyben:
> > DD usually maintains a distance from the actual deaths anyway, which 
> > usually occur through intermediaries & agents. It's all about the 
> > plausible deniability. Quirrel is only person that I'm sure he's 
> > killed directly.
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> Uh. Wha-???  
> 
> Forgive me if this is something you've discussed at length at other 
> times, but I only have time to read the list sporadically and this is a 
> new one for me.  But may I ask how you get that you're "sure" DD killed 
> Quirrell *directly*?  Is that sure as in, "I can't prove it, but I'm 
> sure of it in my gut," or is that sure as in, "I'm sure because it's 
> been proven"?
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan
>
I, too, was wondering about that. What we know of Quirrell's death is
what Dumbledore says in Chapter 17 of PS/SS:

"Professor Quirrell did not manage to take [the Stone] from you. I
arrived in time to prevent that..."

"I arrived just in time to pull Quirrell off you. ...the effort
involved nearly killed you. For one terrible moment there, I was
afraid it had."

"[Voldemort] left Quirrell to die; he shows just as little mercy for
his followers as his enemies."

It seems to me that Voldemort left Quirrell as soon as Dumbledore
pulled him off Harry. My interpretation is that Voldemort had taken
such control over Quirrell, "hogging" so much of his strength and will
to live, that Quirrell alone could no longer maintain his life. This
is what almost becomes of Ginny in CoS: Tom Riddle has leached so much
of her spirit that she is about to die, and Harry drove Riddle off in
the nick of time.

If one person "killed Quirrell," I think that person was Voldemort. As
the scant bits of disclosure about the end of his confrontation with
Harry do not say precisely what happened, other readers'
interpretations will differ. However, I don't think this passage could
be read as saying that DD directly killed Quirrell.

Amontillada