One thing that’s been really puzzling me since re-reading TSPE—why exactly DID Quirrell break Bellatrix out? If it’s to do the resurrection spell (as in canon) then why not take Harry’s blood right after the prison break, and just resurrect already? (Further, it assumes that Voldemort’s body was dead in the first place and needed resurrecting, which we can’t assume because Godric’s Hollow looks like a set-up.)
But Quirrell’s own claimed motive (to learn some of Salazar Slytherin’s secrets) is even dodgier. If Quirrell actually is Voldemort, then he knows those secrets anyway. (Or does he? If he died, them perhaps his Horcrux memory doesn’t count as a living mind within the smallprint of the edict of Merlin).
One thing that’s been really puzzling me since re-reading TSPE—why exactly DID Quirrell break Bellatrix out? If it’s to do the resurrection spell (as in canon) then why not take Harry’s blood right after the prison break, and just resurrect already? (Further, it assumes that Voldemort’s body was dead in the first place and needed resurrecting, which we can’t assume because Godric’s Hollow looks like a set-up.)
But Quirrell’s own claimed motive (to learn some of Salazar Slytherin’s secrets) is even dodgier. If Quirrell actually is Voldemort, then he knows those secrets anyway. (Or does he? If he died, them perhaps his Horcrux memory doesn’t count as a living mind within the smallprint of the edict of Merlin).
So I observe that I am confused.