Viewing the evidence

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> Quirrell was not possessed at this point, since he had not yet donned
> the turban.   Dark Mark bearers can touch Harry --Wormtail 
> hits him, Fake!Moody supports him as he's being led to the DADA office, 
> and Snape grabs him in the Pensieve, then throws him on the floor of
> his office.
>

Possibly film contamination. God rot Warner Bros.
I just checked - my PS is silent on the subject of whether Q was wearing
any headgear at the LC. If he was it probably wasn't a turban, judging
by Harry's observations at the Sorting Feast. But I can't find any
actual canon that definitatively states whether V was or wasn't mounted.
Dunno if Jo has said anything, too idle to check. Anyway, it's a minor point
in terms of the overall post, I'd have thought - though no doubt fascinating
for some.

Dark Marks are not critical in the protection racket - they're only a
magical paging system, after all. 

> 
> Pippin:
> You've got your timeline scrambled. Jo originally asked this question
> at the Book Fair in Edinborough in 2004. She repeated it in 2005
> after HBP had been published, when she was asked if there was
> a question  she had expected would be asked which had not been.
> But she said that those who had finished reading HBP now knew
> the answer.
> 

Yup.
I had a suspicion that was so 30 seconds after posting. 
No matter; if it was wrong somebody was bound to point it out quickly
- the first responses to a long post generally consist of canon quibbles. 
The imaginative replies (if any) arrive later.
But I still reckon to be marginally better at calculating years than Jo is.

Kneasy