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linkhyrule5 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapters 105-107 - Less Wrong
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Quirrell's Parseltongue statements could use a close reading.
This could just mean that the Pioneer horcrux prevents him from being "truly killed".
This seems quite explicit. Quirrell thinks that he can bring Hermione back to life.
(Not in Parseltongue.) Quirrell later asks Harry in Parseltongue to promise to help get the Stone, but he never says in Parseltongue that help getting the Stone is what he actually wants from Harry.
Does this rule out Quirrell transferring his soul into Harry's body (wiping out Harry's identity and reuniting with the Tom Riddle groundwork that he laid in Harry's mind)? Because without this line, that would be my leading hypothesis for what Quirrell actually wants Harry for.
On a side note, note that Quirrell is wrong or lying about already fulfilling the terms of the prophecy. The person that Quirrell marked as his equal, who has powers that Quirrell knows not, is the version of Harry Potter after Quirrell forked himself.
Hence, presumably, the sense of doom.
(... what is odd, though, is that Quirrell seems to be on the losing end of that conflict of magic.)
Quirrell marked Harry as his equal. I cannot imagine anything more marking someone as your equal than replacing their mind with your own.
... but that's not marking someone as your equal, it's killing them and replacing them entirely. That's like saying murdering someone is marking them - maybe, but only in the useless-prophecy "A great nation will fall" sense.
Whereas HJPEV got the same mark that Quirrell got in his first year.