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He doesn't want to kill Harry right now. He may intend to kill Harry at some more convenient point in the future - everything we've seen of Quirrell indicates he plans for the long term.
If we take Hermione at face value on Ch43, he has tried to kill Harry by feeding him to a dementor. Although given the failures his more certain methods have had, it's a big leap to assume that he hasn't thought of taking Harry someplace isolated and setting a blowtorch on him. Extra points for a long torturous death.
Almost certainly not. Remember, it was Quirrell who drew Flitwick's attention to the dropped wand. It is possible that Quirrell planned for precisely what occurred - Harry temporarily Demented and apparently evil.
Why do people keep assuming Quirrell thinks of Harry as an enemy?
He drew attention to the wand after Hermione committed herself to going to the cage. Maybe he didn't have to, but that's the sort of cleverness I expect from him. It tricked you, after all.
I can't speak for people, but Harry is Voldemort's enemy in canon. Until I see some extraordinary evidence to the contrary, I'm going to assume that hasn't changed.
...How did I not notice this?!
Quirrellmort seems altogether too clever an individual to not have noticed by now that Harry is a Horcrux for him. Which means that he'd want very much to rectify that situation before killing Harry. It'd be a self-destructive act to allow that to happen.
Now, a protege -- one who knew that killing his mentor would be killing himself? -- priceless.
Do we know that Harry is a horcrux in HPMoR? I'd assign a much lower probability to Quirrelmort making him one by accident than I would for the original Voldemort.
Conversely, I'd assign a much higher probability of MoR!Quirrell making him one on purpose than canon!Voldemort.
Do we know that Quirrell is Quirrellmort in HPMoR?
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Are you asking if we know that Professor Quirrel is Voldemort? Ryvrmre unf nssvezrq gung gung'f gur pnfr. Vs lbh'er nfxvat fbzrguvat ryfr gura V'ir zvfhaqrefgbbq gur dhrfgvba.
(rot13'ed per request.)
Ah...
Did he retract this statement? Where did he do that?
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So the solution for Desrtopa is either ROT13 the above, or remove any mention you may or may not have made that Eliezer may or may not have confirmed or denied something.
No, though lots of people act like they know that, some of whom may or may not be the author.