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Comment author: twanvl 20 February 2015 10:40:58PM 7 points [-]

But alas, I fear that Professor Riddle would not have found lasting happiness in Hogwarts."

"Why not? "

"Because I still would've been surrounded by idiots, and I wouldn't have been able to kill them," Professor Quirrell said mildly.

The solution seems obvious (albeit hard and dangerous): make the students smarter so they are no longer idiots.

Comment author: irrational_crank 21 February 2015 11:52:40AM 2 points [-]

Possible stupid question:If Quirrell was so frustrated with with the idiocy of the students, then why did he kill Hermione (the next smartest student) in an unnecessary subplot (Quirrell admitted it did not matter in the long run whether the plan succeeded or not) and cause the next smartest one after that to be withdrawn from the school?

Comment author: azuredarkness 21 February 2015 08:16:11PM 1 point [-]

That's not one of the plans listed as unimportant. The relevant part was removing or weakening her influence on Harry, and this was achieved by the Troll plan when the original plan failed.

Comment author: adamzerner 07 April 2015 09:21:26PM *  0 points [-]

I suppose that it's partly because she wasn't nearly smart enough for Quirrell to find interesting in the way Harry is.

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