Quirrell

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 168468

Donna in Dayton wrote:
>
> When Harry first met Quirrell in the Leaky Cauldron was Quirrell up
close and personal with Voldemort?  In the Leaky Cauldron scene there
is no mention of Quirrell's turban, of Harry's scar hurting, and
Quirrell was able to shake hands with Harry.

Carol responds:

Quirrell isn't wearing the turban at that point and can shake hands
with Harry because Voldemort hasn't possessed him yet. After Quirrell
fails to steal the Philosopher's Stone (which, of course, has already
been taken from the vault, so it's not Quirrell's fault :-) ),
Voldemort decides to "keep a closer watch on [him]" (SS Am. ed. 291)
by literally getting inside his head.

BTW, it's not clear, at least not to me, whether Quirrell could still
touch Harry at that point since he hadn't become clearly wicked
himself, hadn't yet tried killed any unicorns or tried to kill Harry,
but I don't think he could. I think merely allowing Voldemort to
possess him is sufficient to make touching Harry impossible.  When
Harry asks why Quirrell couldn't touch him, DD explains, "Quirrell,
full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort,
could not touch you for this reason [Lily's blood protection]. It was
agony to touch a person marked by something so good" (299). I can't
tell from this passage whether it's the soul-sharing (the presence of
Voldemort within Quirrell) or Quirrell's own wickedness (having
succumbed to Voldemort's will and chosen to do his bidding) that makes
touching Harry impossible. 

Would the blood protection have worked if Quirrell did all the things
he did (short of actually drinking the unicorn blood) but didn't have
Voldemort inside his head, protecting Harry from a Dark wizard trying
to kill him, or does it only protect against Voldemort himself? I'm
not sure. All I know is that when Harry shook Quirrell's hand in the
Leaky Cauldron, Voldemort had not yet possessed him. He had not even
attempted to steal the stone, which happened later that same
afternoon. (Harry reads about it in the Daily Prophet though the
article doesn't specify what was stolen.)

Carol, still wondering how Quirrell got Voldemort into England
*before* Voldie was inside his head and thinking that LV must have
been possessing Nagini at the time, which raises the question of how
Quirrell could get *Nagini* to England undetected