Not unless Quirrel is using some sort of super-Timeturner. 6 hours per day over an entire school year of ~180 days is still only (180 * 6) / 24 = 45 days. Most people don’t age visibly over just 45 days—unless, of course, there were some sort of massive ordeal & trauma.
I don’t see the increased again being accounted for just by increased hours of living through time turning either.
If the argument is that too frequent time turning has a damaging effect in itself, I can’t see them giving out such a potentially health damaging item to children without at least warning of that specific effect. Also, if EY is keeping the same basic timelines for Dumbledore, he is holding up better than average for his chronological age despite his time turning adventures.
Meanwhile, Quirrell explicitly talked about the advantages of ritual magic, and how it allows greater power than otherwise possible. He has greater power. He is aging rapidly. And by many indications, he is traveling host to host over time. If you could do that, the natural thing would be to use up the host and travel to a new one when you use it up, since your supply of bodies is in effect infinite, while it’s a finite resource of 1 body for everyone else.
Could this be a result of very frequent time-turning?
Not unless Quirrel is using some sort of super-Timeturner. 6 hours per day over an entire school year of ~180 days is still only
(180 * 6) / 24 = 45days. Most people don’t age visibly over just 45 days—unless, of course, there were some sort of massive ordeal & trauma.I don’t see the increased again being accounted for just by increased hours of living through time turning either.
If the argument is that too frequent time turning has a damaging effect in itself, I can’t see them giving out such a potentially health damaging item to children without at least warning of that specific effect. Also, if EY is keeping the same basic timelines for Dumbledore, he is holding up better than average for his chronological age despite his time turning adventures.
Meanwhile, Quirrell explicitly talked about the advantages of ritual magic, and how it allows greater power than otherwise possible. He has greater power. He is aging rapidly. And by many indications, he is traveling host to host over time. If you could do that, the natural thing would be to use up the host and travel to a new one when you use it up, since your supply of bodies is in effect infinite, while it’s a finite resource of 1 body for everyone else.