Unicorn blood

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley"
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> 
> Pippin wrote:
> 
> >  Quirrellmort is heard 
> > begging Voldemort not to make him do something 
> > again,  but if he was in such a weakened state that 
> > he needed to drink unicorn blood to sustain himself, 
> > how could he have managed to kill such a powerful 
> > magical creature on his own?
> 
> I have always read this that Voldemort needed the blood, not 
> Quirrell.  The mystery to me, therefore, is how to drink with the
back 
> of your head.
> 
Pippin:
I am not sure how serious you are about this comment, but anyway
Harry saw Quirrell stand up and face him with blood dribbling down
his front. I think Harry would have noticed if Quirrell's knees and
elbows were back to front.

David:
> In any case, we need to eat to sustain ourselves, but as long as we 
> are prompt about it, we never get weak - why should an additional 
> requirement for unicorn blood be any different?

Pippin:
Post GoF, I read it as Quirrell needing to drink the blood for
Voldemort's sake so that he  could survive possession and continue to
host Voldie. According to Firenze, the blood will keep you alive if you 
are "an inch from death" and we saw that Quirrellmort was not up to 
attacking  an unarmed centaur much less a unicorn. I got the 
impression  that the unicorn blood was a last resort. But I could 
be wrong.

Pippin