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Why did Quirrell allow the unicorn corpses to be found? Why didn't he dispose of the corpse by making it disappear, instead of trying to pass it off as a predator? Would anyone notice if a unicorn vanished without leaving a corpse? ( I suppose they might, since they're medically valuable, but since unicorns are known not to have predators the predated corpse is hardly a good cover, as we saw. Vanishing the corpse would have made it take longer to notice.)
Anyway, this is one of the few times we see Quirrell's plot clearly failing without anyone actually acting to thwart him. Is it plausible that he was actually unable to kill and drink a unicorn without anyone immediately noticing?
Hagrid would have noticed. Hagrid named each individual unicorn in the forest, and if one disappeared, he'd definitely go to Dumbledore about it.
Doesn't work. Hagrid says explicitly in the chapter that he's had almost no interaction with the unicorns.
He did notice when one died... No interaction does not mean being unaware of their existence (or lack thereof.)
Specific proof is that he knew Alicorn was dead before they found the body.
He can know that the unicorns live in a place, see the signs of their passing, without actually going up to them and interacting with them.
Right? How could he, he's not a young virgin (probably).