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Ch. 54: If Harry and Quirrell discussed the possibility of an Auror seeing them, Harry should have told Quirrell that AK is out of the question- no sense in killing one innocent person in the course of saving one innocent person.
And it's a pretty big miscalculation of Quirrell not to anticipate Harry's intervention at the key moment. He really should have seen by now that Harry's light side is that strong.
Unless, of course, that was the real gambit somehow.
ETA: Loved the writing, though- I was on the edge of my seat.
Harry didn't consciously intervene. His Patronus 2.0 sort of teleported to block Quirrel's spell. Quirrel (like Harry) may not have even been aware that could happen.
I interpreted it that he was just too caught up in duelling-lust, and momentarily eriregrq gb uvf Qnex Ybeq crefban, forgetting how Harry would react.
ETA: rot-13d some stuff which is apparently supposed to be secret again.
Huh? Spoilers for HP and HP:MoR are fair game here!
Spoilers for HP:MoR that do not come from the text itself are not so much fair game.
They are if they are derived independently from the text via discussion here or guesswork. ie. You can guess stuff. They aren't if, um, you raid Eliezer's dwellings and find yet to be published manuscripts, for example. Or torture Eliezer to find out his plans. Any source of knowledge that hasn't passed through the bottleneck of the text at some point.
Dclayh didn't reveal anything remotely privileged. Or anything that hasn't been speculated on ad infinitum.
dclayh was complying with the spirit of this request from Eliezer:
It's also a pretty big miscalculation of Harry not to anticipate Quirrell using AK in such a case! But that makes sense, considering how Quirrell got him into this in the first place.