When Quirrell learned about Harry’s “sense of doom”, did he do anything to stop the information from getting to Dumbledore? It looks like pure accident that Dumbledore never learned about it. McGonagall could have told him as well, when things got serious.
It looks like pure accident that Dumbledore never learned about it.
The injunction against anyone bringing up issues about Quirrell only makes sense within the story as a way for Dumbledore and McGonagall to maintain a pretense that they don’t know that Quirrell is Voldemort. In particular, preventing the Boy Who Lived from communicating his doubts makes no sense at all except in those terms. They’ve known about horcruxes for a while. They know Voldemort can come back. Fairly early on, Dumbledore see’s that Harry is the Good Voldemort. If they really didn’t know where Voldemort was, it would just be Idiot Ball for Narrative Convenience to shush Harry’s reservations about the Defense Professor.
If Dumbledore was meant to be a PC, he had to know.
McGonagall in fact prevented Harry from spilling the beans about the Sense of Doom. I remember at least one such scene, and don’t recall any where McGonagall actually let Harry tell her about the Sense of Doom.
Re-reading the story, I see a lot of evidence that Dumbledore didn’t know that Quirrell was Voldemort. For example, Chapter 62:
You are no longer taking lunches in Diagon Alley, even with Professor Quirrell to watch you. Your blood is the second requisite Voldemort needs to rise as strong as before.
He refers to the same issue when talking to Bones. It would make no sense for him to do so if he believed that Voldemort had constant access to Harry and countless opportunities to “accidentally” obtain his blood (as indeed happened with the newspaper).
When Quirrell learned about Harry’s “sense of doom”, did he do anything to stop the information from getting to Dumbledore? It looks like pure accident that Dumbledore never learned about it. McGonagall could have told him as well, when things got serious.
The injunction against anyone bringing up issues about Quirrell only makes sense within the story as a way for Dumbledore and McGonagall to maintain a pretense that they don’t know that Quirrell is Voldemort. In particular, preventing the Boy Who Lived from communicating his doubts makes no sense at all except in those terms. They’ve known about horcruxes for a while. They know Voldemort can come back. Fairly early on, Dumbledore see’s that Harry is the Good Voldemort. If they really didn’t know where Voldemort was, it would just be Idiot Ball for Narrative Convenience to shush Harry’s reservations about the Defense Professor.
If Dumbledore was meant to be a PC, he had to know.
McGonagall in fact prevented Harry from spilling the beans about the Sense of Doom. I remember at least one such scene, and don’t recall any where McGonagall actually let Harry tell her about the Sense of Doom.
Re-reading the story, I see a lot of evidence that Dumbledore didn’t know that Quirrell was Voldemort. For example, Chapter 62:
He refers to the same issue when talking to Bones. It would make no sense for him to do so if he believed that Voldemort had constant access to Harry and countless opportunities to “accidentally” obtain his blood (as indeed happened with the newspaper).