As Professor Quirrell stood up from where he’d bent over by the pouch, and put away his wand, his wand happened to point in Harry’s direction, and there was a brief crawling sensation on Harry’s chest near where the Time-Turner lay, like something creepy had passed very close by without touching him.
Chapter 54:
“Sorry,” whispered the eleven-year-old boy, “here,” and he held out the wand toward Bahry.
Bahry barely stopped himself from snarling at the traumatized boy who’d just saved his life. Instead he overrode the impulse with a sigh, and just stretched out a hand to take the wand. “Look, son, you’re really not supposed to point a wand at—”
The wand’s end twisted lightly beneath Bahry’s hand just as the boy whispered, “Somnium.”
Seems to indicate that Quirrell casted some kind of spell on Harry at that point in Chapter 51.
Anyone have any ideas as to what this is about?
Slowly, slowly, as Professor Quirrell had instructed, the pouch began to float toward Harry, who waited alert for any sign the pouch was opening, in which case Harry was to use the Hover Charm to propel it away from him as fast as possible.
Why does he need to float the pouch about at all? Why not just pick it up?
Seems to indicate that Quirrell casted some kind of spell on Harry at that point in Chapter 51.
That’s the telekinesis that allowed Harry to activate the time-turner. If Harry’s hypothesis about the sense of doom being magical disharmony is correct, then the creepiness would just be from getting close to one of Quirrell’s spells. And the subterfuge with the wand direction isn’t intended to fool Harry (who knew that Quirrell planned to cast telekinesis), but rather is Quirrell’s distrust of the privacy wards.
Chapter 51 (emphasis added):
Chapter 54:
Seems to indicate that Quirrell casted some kind of spell on Harry at that point in Chapter 51.
Anyone have any ideas as to what this is about?
Why does he need to float the pouch about at all? Why not just pick it up?
That’s the telekinesis that allowed Harry to activate the time-turner. If Harry’s hypothesis about the sense of doom being magical disharmony is correct, then the creepiness would just be from getting close to one of Quirrell’s spells. And the subterfuge with the wand direction isn’t intended to fool Harry (who knew that Quirrell planned to cast telekinesis), but rather is Quirrell’s distrust of the privacy wards.