[the_old_crowd] Re: Viewing the evidence

[Constance Vigilance]

Talisman <talisman22457 at ...> wrote:
  
  Kneasy wrote:
  
  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.
  
  Then Talisman:
  
  LV got on board after the botched bank robbery, which is also after the initial meeting with Harry at the Leaky Cauldron.
  
  CV:
  
  Harry's observations at the sorting feast are worth noting:
  
  "Harry spotted Professor Quirrell, the nervous young man from the Leaky  Cauldron. He was looking very peculiar in a large purple turban."
  
  Was he looking peculiar *because* he was wearing a large purple turban,  or was he looking peculiar because he was just getting used to having a  passenger? In any case, I think we can be confident that he was not  wearing any type of turban in the previous meeting. Bad WB, BAD! WB  also committed the ultimate foul in relation to Quirrell by killing him  to dust. The books are quite vague about whether Quirrell is dead or  not.
  
  Let's see what Dumbledore says about Quirrell in "The Man With Two Faces":
  
  "Quirrell does not have the stone." (Note: Dumbledore uses the present tense. He could have said "Quirrell never got the stone."
  
  Then, later (speaking of Voldemort):
  
  "... (N)ot being truly alive, he cannot be killed. He left Quirrell to  die; he shows just a little mercy to his followers as his enemies."
  
  This last is describing Voldemort's character. It has no bearing on  Quirrell's state. Voldemort also left Harry to die, for that matter.
  
  The god Janus, the original "Man With Two Faces", was the god of  beginnings and endings. The fact that the chapter is named this, I  think, leads good credibility to the idea that Quirrell is an important  character in the beginning, *and the end* of the series.
  
  As was pointed out, Dumbledore can make someone appear to be dead. I  think there is good reason to suspect that the same offer was made to  Quirrell. For those who like to think the seven puzzles in the dungeon  represent the seven books. The final book should be Harry Potter and  Out of the Blue - Quirrell.
  
  Constance Vigilance, holding a candle for the Q-man.


			
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