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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 179812

lizzyben:
> 
> Definitely just sure of it in my gut. I was hoping that'd get a 
> response! It doesn't seem like Quirrell's fate has been brought up 
> on the list post-DH & IMO it's something that definitely takes on a 
> new light in view of the revelations of that book.
> 
> The ending of SS is very, very odd. Harry confronts Quirrell/LV, LV 
> recoils when Harry grabs his face & Harry hangs onto his arm, Harry 
> hears voices calling his name... and he blacks out. He wakes up three
> days later & DD tells him that Quirrell died when LV fled his body. 
> I am, as usual, suspicious! <snip>

Carol responds:

Nevertheless, it's confirmed by Voldemort himself in GoF:

"The servant died when I left his body, and I was left as weak as I
had ever been" (GoF Am. ed. 654).

Carol, noting that the snakes and other small animals that Vapormort
possesses also die when he uses up their life force