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LauralH comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapters 105-107 - Less Wrong Discussion
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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 the first point : he can only be defeated by the Power He Knows Not!
On the contrary.
Voldemort can only be defeated by The Power He Knows: Nott!
Notice that Theodore Nott is right outside. He was (oddly) traveling with the Meddling Kids Squad.
Very good.
However, there's nothing odd about his presence with the other children. He's a Slytherin who's been portrayed sympathetically ever since his induction into the Chaos Legion, so it's very plausible that he's a member of the Silvery Slytherins and thus someone Draco would turn to for help in an emergency.
It's odd in the sense that he hasn't been especially prominent in the story so far. All the others were involved in the bullying storyline, or are Draco.
Therefore, by the principle of conservation of nonsense, Theodore Nott must actually be polyjuiced Dumbledore.