An interesting point. I hadn’t considered that Quirrell might be exempt from the curse due to being Voldemort (or being closely connected to Voldemort, perhaps).
Even if Quirrel is entirely under Voldemort’s control here, it’s unlikely that Quirrelmort will want or need to remain professor after this year. Heck, he could leave the school now, and even odds say that Harry would follow him; a few more months, and his work here will be done.
Considering the blow his trust in Quirrell just received, I don’t think Harry would really throw away his future to follow him from school at this point, if he even would have before.
I’m assuming that, if he wanted to, Quirrell could think of something pretty smart to say to Harry, and even now I’d give him even odds on success. Before the blow to trust, I’d have given him much higher odds, again conditional on his really trying.
However, I wrote my comment before reading Chapter 66. If Harry succeeds in saying No to Quirrell once, then he’ll find it much easier to say it again. Quirrell should have started with something that he really could talk Harry into (although he might yet talk Harry into this).
Quite possibly! Dumbledore expects the curse to have kicked in by that point, but he doesn’t know that Quirrell is Voldemort.
An interesting point. I hadn’t considered that Quirrell might be exempt from the curse due to being Voldemort (or being closely connected to Voldemort, perhaps).
He wasn’t exempt in canon. Here, I don’t know.
Even if Quirrel is entirely under Voldemort’s control here, it’s unlikely that Quirrelmort will want or need to remain professor after this year. Heck, he could leave the school now, and even odds say that Harry would follow him; a few more months, and his work here will be done.
Considering the blow his trust in Quirrell just received, I don’t think Harry would really throw away his future to follow him from school at this point, if he even would have before.
I’m assuming that, if he wanted to, Quirrell could think of something pretty smart to say to Harry, and even now I’d give him even odds on success. Before the blow to trust, I’d have given him much higher odds, again conditional on his really trying.
However, I wrote my comment before reading Chapter 66. If Harry succeeds in saying No to Quirrell once, then he’ll find it much easier to say it again. Quirrell should have started with something that he really could talk Harry into (although he might yet talk Harry into this).