Well, he pretty clearly turned the Pioneer Plaque into a Horcrux, told Harry, then Obliviated him when he reacted badly. Also, at two separate points he claims to have “resolved his family issues” and later states that his family is “long since dead by the Dark Lord’s hand.” Hardly conclusive, but there are other, similar little hints and Q has after all admitted to “playing a game of lying with truths.” Oh, and Voldemort in Canon always wanted to teach at Hogwarts. So there’s that.
Well, it’s the same effect as when H&C brute-forced Hermione. Although that’s a good point about their magic; I’d forgotten about that. There are ways around it, of course …
That is so weird—I’ve never heard that interpretation, and I can’t seem to get it out of the text. I just see Harry reacting not-badly, and no sign that Harry was obliviated.
“I subscribe to a Muggle bulletin which keeps me informed of progress on space travel. I didn’t hear about Pioneer 10 until they reported its launch. But when I discovered that Pioneer 11 would also be leaving the Solar System forever,” Professor Quirrell said, his grin the widest that Harry had yet seen from him, “I snuck into NASA, I did, and I cast a lovely little spell on that lovely golden plaque which will make it last a lot longer than it otherwise would.”
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“Yes,” Professor Quirrell said, who now seemed to be standing around fifty feet taller, “I thought that was how you might react.”
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“Mr. Potter?”
″...I can’t think of anything to say.”
“‘You win’ seems appropriate,” said Professor Quirrell.
“You win,” Harry said immediately.
“See?” said Professor Quirrell. “We can only imagine what giant heap of trouble you would have gotten into if you had been unable to say that.”
They both laughed.
Waitaminute. That was just him staring silently, wasn’t it? And the line about “fifty feet taller” just meant he seemed so much more imposing for having … strengthened the pioneer plaque …
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Actually, on reflection, that seems both an obvious interpretation and a strange one. Although it doesn’t run into the problem of magic interacting. It honestly never occurred to me to interpret this any other way, although of course it predated the Azkaban revelation of what happened when they interacted.
Why is it formatted just like Hat & Cloak’s little memory modifications, then? Those are the only other examples of Quirrel (or anyone, really) memory-charming people and it looks exactly the same.
Well, he pretty clearly turned the Pioneer Plaque into a Horcrux, told Harry, then Obliviated him when he reacted badly. Also, at two separate points he claims to have “resolved his family issues” and later states that his family is “long since dead by the Dark Lord’s hand.” Hardly conclusive, but there are other, similar little hints and Q has after all admitted to “playing a game of lying with truths.” Oh, and Voldemort in Canon always wanted to teach at Hogwarts. So there’s that.
You’re not supposed to say what he did to the Pioneer plaque out loud! It’s more funner to realize it on your own.
Where do you get that he Obliviated Harry? All of his lines sound like reasonable first-iteration attempts, and Harry didn’t lose time.
I, ah, I got it from the ellipses. Which is suddenly seeming much less reasonable. In my defense, it IS the same effect used for Hermione.
Quirrell can’t cast spells on Harry without some sort of magical resonance occurring. He almost certainly has not been obliviating Harry.
Well, it’s the same effect as when H&C brute-forced Hermione. Although that’s a good point about their magic; I’d forgotten about that. There are ways around it, of course …
Do you know which chapter that was? I cannot remember this passage.
Chapter 20. Of course, that’s just my reading of it, but I think it’s a popular interpretation—it certainly seems the most plausible one.
That is so weird—I’ve never heard that interpretation, and I can’t seem to get it out of the text. I just see Harry reacting not-badly, and no sign that Harry was obliviated.
The, ah, the ellipses?
Waitaminute. That was just him staring silently, wasn’t it? And the line about “fifty feet taller” just meant he seemed so much more imposing for having … strengthened the pioneer plaque …
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Actually, on reflection, that seems both an obvious interpretation and a strange one. Although it doesn’t run into the problem of magic interacting. It honestly never occurred to me to interpret this any other way, although of course it predated the Azkaban revelation of what happened when they interacted.
Why is it formatted just like Hat & Cloak’s little memory modifications, then? Those are the only other examples of Quirrel (or anyone, really) memory-charming people and it looks exactly the same.