I didn’t think of that. Sounds worth considering. But it doesn’t change the fact that pretending to be a healer doesn’t prevent being a healer. Quirrell knows that Harry knows it, so to me, “pretending to be healer” doesn’t provide meaningful evidence in any direction.
Plus, Quirrell is exploring a hypothetical, here. And the healer could be genuine, and somehow tricked, seduced, or bribed. Now that I think of it, this is even more probable than the false healer hypothesis: a real healer genuinely convinced of doing good is probably both easier to find and more reliable than an actual minion.
I guess for me the thing that tips the scales between ‘real healer’ and ‘minion pretending to be a healer’ is that I don’t think it’s actually in Quirrell’s interests to deprogram Bellatrix of her loyalty to Voldemort.
Though presumably she is at least competent in regular healing, of the sort needed to get Bella back in fighting trim.
I didn’t think of that. Sounds worth considering. But it doesn’t change the fact that pretending to be a healer doesn’t prevent being a healer. Quirrell knows that Harry knows it, so to me, “pretending to be healer” doesn’t provide meaningful evidence in any direction.
Plus, Quirrell is exploring a hypothetical, here. And the healer could be genuine, and somehow tricked, seduced, or bribed. Now that I think of it, this is even more probable than the false healer hypothesis: a real healer genuinely convinced of doing good is probably both easier to find and more reliable than an actual minion.
I guess for me the thing that tips the scales between ‘real healer’ and ‘minion pretending to be a healer’ is that I don’t think it’s actually in Quirrell’s interests to deprogram Bellatrix of her loyalty to Voldemort.
Though presumably she is at least competent in regular healing, of the sort needed to get Bella back in fighting trim.