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Keep an Eye on Quirrell?

[info]terri_testing
11/23/10 11:02 am
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Jodel has a very nice analysis about what was going on behind the scenes in PS:
http://www.redhen-publications.com/QuirrellDebacle.html

I agree with a lot of it, but as a Snape fan I have a problem.

Quirrell was first an agent of Riddle’s and then possessed by him. He was working in Riddle’s interests, and trying to steal the stone.

And trying to kill Harry, on the side.

Now, in retrospect it’s clear why that fact wouldn’t much worry Dumbles. But Snape? The man who’s pledged his life to “help [Dumbles] protect Lily’s son”? Why did Snape continue to go along with Dumble’s insistence on setting a clever little trap and spending months trying to lure Riddle into it rather than getting rid of the man, after the first time Quirrell tried to murder Harry?

When did Snape realize Quirrell was Tom’s agent? When did he realize Quirrell was Tom’s possession? And why was he content to do no more than just “keep an eye on Quirrell” and interfere with such murder attempts as he spotted? I mean, keeping his cover only goes so far: what's Snape care if his reputation with Tom is intact when Lily's child is dead?

What did Snape think was going on?

Answers, anyone?
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  • The Mark Darkening

    [info]terri_testing
    11/29/10 06:39 pm (UTC)
    Well, I think we can infer that Lucius would not have gotten up to his shenanigans at the QWC if he'd expected Tom's return. I agree with Jodel, Lucius thought the events at the end of PS meant that Tom wouldn't be able to return (note Tom rather thought so too for a while, or so he says) and that he was therefore off the hook to pursue his own ambitions. Which apparently included rattling the Ministry with faux-DE activity which Lucius fortuitously would be able to put a stop to....

    Once the Mark started darkening, Lucius was less sanguine, and started casting his Dumbledore-discrediting activities as a welcome-home to his old master....

    I suspect that Tom controlled the reaction of the Marks, though--that he allowed them to start darkening as a threat to his, er, loyal followers ("I'm coming....")

    But... think about Harry's scar. The first time Harry meets Riddle's eyes (through the turban) his scar hurts. And he reacts immediately and visibly, and Tom is able to cut the connection to protect his/Quirrell's secret. Harry's scar doesn't hurt again in Quirrell's presence (and you cannot persuade me Tom never clapped eyes again on Potter) until Tom allows it to at the reveal.

    But the first pain was presumably involuntary.

    Similarly, Tom apparently doesn't know initially that Harry's scar is hurting at moments when Tom is near/feeling high emotion, or that it's giving Harry visions of Tom's activities. When he does find out, he sets out to use it, of course; and subsequently assumes he's walled it off.

    Now, to what extent is the Dark Mark under Tom's control? If it's completely, the once and future DE's will be aware of nothing until Tom wants them to. If there's leakage--especially at first, while Tom's weakest and least aware....

    Of course, I've already assumed there was leakage. One can always revise, however.

    • Re: The Mark Darkening

      [info]oryx_leucoryx
      11/30/10 05:48 am (UTC)
      Harry's scar doesn't hurt again in Quirrell's presence (and you cannot persuade me Tom never clapped eyes again on Potter) until Tom allows it to at the reveal.


      The scar hurts before the reveal - when Harry sees Quirrellmort in the forest and then during the following days on occasion. But we can explain that away as Tom losing control as he (or Quirrell) becomes weaker from repeated attempts at the obstacles.

      But the Mark, while alerting Severus to something Voldemort-related, doesn't indicate where exactly Voldemort is.

      How well Did Severus know Quirrell before the sabbatical? How did he interpret the personality change?

      Were Albus' Albananian 'sources' already in place? Did he know Tom had left Albania?
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