CHAPTER DISCUSSION: PS/SS 4, The Keeper of the Keys

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 187860

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at ... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/26/2009 2:18:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> justcarol67 at ... writes:
> 
> Carol  responds:
> Before SS/PS, LV is possessing animals in Albania, barely  alive. He does 
> not possess Quirrell until after Harry meets Quirrell in the  Leaky Cauldron, 
> right before Quirrell tries and fails to steal the  
> Sorcerer's/PhilosopBefore SS/PS,

Melissa:  
> I think this is the hole to which you were you were referring. ;-).
>  
> I'm certain that Quirrell was possessed before the Leaky Cauldron  meeting. Quirrell was in Albania prior to returning to Hogwarts for  the new term. <snip>

Carol responds:
I'm not sure what you mean by "hole." However, the narrator specifically mentions Quirrell, who is sitting next to Snape at the banquet, as "looking very odd" in a purple turban, clearly indicating that he was not wearing the turban (which conceals Voldemort) when Harry first met him in the Leaky Cauldron. Also, Quirrell himself states in "The Man with Two Faces" that his master possessed him after he failed to obtain the Stone to keep firmer control of him.

Exactly how Quirrell brought LV back to England from Albania is unclear, but I assume that Voldemort was possessing a snake or other animal at the time, just as he must have been doing when Quirrell (and later, Wormtail), encountered him in Albania.

Carol, noting that the relevant passages are in "Diagon Alley," "The Sorting Hat," and, as mentioned, "The Man with Two Faces"