If you want text to run with this idea, that text would be:
“Here of course we have the Sorting Hat, I believe the two of you have met. It told me that it was never again to be placed on your head under any circumstances. You’re only the fourteenth student in history it’s said that about, Baba Yaga was another one and I’ll tell you about the other twelve when you’re older”
(Chapter 17)
and
You decided that in the beginning, all the way back in the beginning of this year, when the Sorting Hat offered you Hufflepuff. Which I know about, because I received a similar offer and warning all those years ago, and I refused it just as you did. Beyond this there is little more to say, between Tom Riddles.
...and if you want a counter-hypothesis, the only line quoted in which Quirrell seems to have an emotional reaction is:
And then one year Baba Yaga agreed to teach Battle Magic at Hogwarts, under an old and respected truce.” Professor Quirrell looked… angry, a look such as Harry had rarely seen on him. “But she was not trusted, and so there was invoked a curse.
Dumbledore did not allow Tom Riddle to teach Battle Magic.
That could explain the anger. There’s still a lot of detail about the bedroom, though you could assume that Quirrel used legilemens on Flamel to find the truth about the stone. That seems really direct and dangerous, but Perenelle may not be an occlumens at all, and from Ch. 86:
“And I’ll warn you of this but once. Voldie isn’t like any other Legilimens in recorded history. He doesn’t need to look you in the eyes, and if your shields are that rusty he’d creep in so softly you’d never notice a thing.”
As DavidAgain pointed out above, there seems to be a parseltongue statement against tricking the map as well.
Something is still off about this, though. Suddenly Quirrel is spinning a romance narrative? Also, here is a clever, ambition student, who in her 6th year outwitted the most powerful dark sorceress we know of and obtained for herself an ancient immortality-granting artifact. She sought immortality while still in school, as Tom Riddle did, and with greater success. She leveraged her advantage over greater wizards than herself to obtain more power still. She has shown so many traits that Quirrel would admire, and what adjectives does he use to describe her? Covetous. Black-hearted. If the betrayal were personal, I can make sense of that, otherwise it seems really off.
The Quirrel I know would mostly stick to the facts, perhaps stopping to note the stupidity of Baba Yaga and the cunning of Perenelle.
Maybe his negative view of Perenelle is just because she helped Dumbledore. Maybe I’m reading too much into too little. I’m in love with the theory though; I hope it works out.
My head canon is that Riddle seduced his own DADA professor when he was a 6th year, so when he investigated Baba Yaga’s death that narrative rang true to him.
If you want text to run with this idea, that text would be:
(Chapter 17)
and
(Chapter 108)
...and if you want a counter-hypothesis, the only line quoted in which Quirrell seems to have an emotional reaction is:
Dumbledore did not allow Tom Riddle to teach Battle Magic.
That could explain the anger. There’s still a lot of detail about the bedroom, though you could assume that Quirrel used legilemens on Flamel to find the truth about the stone. That seems really direct and dangerous, but Perenelle may not be an occlumens at all, and from Ch. 86:
As DavidAgain pointed out above, there seems to be a parseltongue statement against tricking the map as well.
Something is still off about this, though. Suddenly Quirrel is spinning a romance narrative? Also, here is a clever, ambition student, who in her 6th year outwitted the most powerful dark sorceress we know of and obtained for herself an ancient immortality-granting artifact. She sought immortality while still in school, as Tom Riddle did, and with greater success. She leveraged her advantage over greater wizards than herself to obtain more power still. She has shown so many traits that Quirrel would admire, and what adjectives does he use to describe her? Covetous. Black-hearted. If the betrayal were personal, I can make sense of that, otherwise it seems really off.
The Quirrel I know would mostly stick to the facts, perhaps stopping to note the stupidity of Baba Yaga and the cunning of Perenelle.
Maybe his negative view of Perenelle is just because she helped Dumbledore. Maybe I’m reading too much into too little. I’m in love with the theory though; I hope it works out.
My head canon is that Riddle seduced his own DADA professor when he was a 6th year, so when he investigated Baba Yaga’s death that narrative rang true to him.