[HPforGrownups] Re: Quirrell and the dungeon - long (was: Slytherins and Werewolves)

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 170551

From: Constance Vigilance <ConstanceVigilance at gmail.com>
>The only other possibility is that Dumbledore finished a helpless 
>Quirrell off himself. I can't believe that of Dumbledore.
>
>As I said, Quirrell may be dead. He may not appear in Book 7. But 
>there is no canonical or FAQ evidence (that can't be refuted) that 
>Quirrell perished in the dungeon, or anywhere in the first book.

Bart:
In the real world, there are plenty of cases where organs can be in failure, you
are going to die very soon, but you don't die immediately. My belief is that
when Morty left Quirrel's body, there were some leftover "life energies"
(or whatever you want to call them), but Quirrel no longer had the ability to create
new life energies. So he was able to remain alive for a few minutes after Morty 
left, but there was no way to save him.

Bart