Zambini’s actions during the Lake-Battle were not good for Quirrell. It did end in Harry hearing that Dumbledore acted dark, but Quirrell knows Harry well-enough to predict he wouldn’t trust that information. So if Quirrell was really H&C, he should have had Zambini serving Potter all along so that Harry would win and be more likely to rule the country.
But I also very much doubt that it’s Lucius, as he doesn’t seem to fall into the category of “clever, but not too clever.”
So if Quirrell was really H&C, he should have had Zambini serving Potter all along so that Harry would win and be more likely to rule the country.
As much as Quirrell knows to favor simple plans, I expect he also has a Xanatos Gambit or two up his sleeve. I don’t expect to be able to predict Quirrell’s actions.
You think getting Harry made Magical-Dictator-For-Life is simple? Besides, H&C’s conversation with Zambini makes no sense if it’s Quirrell. If he’s about to obliterate the kid, he hasn’t the slightest reason to keep up his charade of plotting to set the Headmaster and Defense Professor against one-another.
While none of this makes it impossible that Quirrell is H&C, I don’t think we have a good enough reason to suspect him that it’s all irrelevant.
If he’s about to obliterate the kid, he hasn’t the slightest reason to keep up his charade of plotting to set the Headmaster and Defense Professor against one-another.
Did he, though?
Blaise hesitated, but his curiosity was eating him alive. “Can I ask now why you want to cause trouble between Professor Quirrell and Dumbledore?” The Headmaster hadn’t had anything to do with the Gryffindor bullies that Blaise knew about, and besides helping Kimberly, the Headmaster had also offered to make Professor Binns give him excellent marks in History of Magic even if he turned in blank parchments for his homework, though he’d still have to attend class and pretend to hand them in. Actually Blaise would have betrayed all three generals for free, and never mind his cousin either, but he’d seen no need to say that.
The broad black hat cocked to one side, as if to convey a quizzical stare. “Tell me, friend Blaise, did it occur to you that traitors who betray so many times over often meet with ill ends?”
Zambini’s actions during the Lake-Battle were not good for Quirrell. It did end in Harry hearing that Dumbledore acted dark, but Quirrell knows Harry well-enough to predict he wouldn’t trust that information. So if Quirrell was really H&C, he should have had Zambini serving Potter all along so that Harry would win and be more likely to rule the country.
But I also very much doubt that it’s Lucius, as he doesn’t seem to fall into the category of “clever, but not too clever.”
As much as Quirrell knows to favor simple plans, I expect he also has a Xanatos Gambit or two up his sleeve. I don’t expect to be able to predict Quirrell’s actions.
You think getting Harry made Magical-Dictator-For-Life is simple? Besides, H&C’s conversation with Zambini makes no sense if it’s Quirrell. If he’s about to obliterate the kid, he hasn’t the slightest reason to keep up his charade of plotting to set the Headmaster and Defense Professor against one-another.
While none of this makes it impossible that Quirrell is H&C, I don’t think we have a good enough reason to suspect him that it’s all irrelevant.
Zabini.
Obliviate.
Did he, though?
Fair enough. But nonetheless, H&C wouldn’t need a report if he’d been in the conversation Blaise was reporting on.
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Unless H&C needs to figure out (through legilimancy) who else Zabini might have told about his existence, so that he can go and obliviate them too.