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Prof. QUIRRELL

Young, nervous, and stuttering, Professor Quirrell was the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher during Harry's 1st year. He appeared constantly spooked, and it seemed he was bullied a great deal by Professor Snape (although we found out eventually what that was all about...). Looking ludicrous in a large purple turban that smelled funny (supposedly a gift from an African prince for banishing a zombie....), Quirrell seemed hardly the type to go about conquering evil. And indeed, unfortunately, that was the case.
You don't hear much about Quirrell (we don't even know his first name), but I feel rather sorry for the guy. Hagrid says Quirrell had a brilliant mind, but went out to gain hands-on experience and returned quite a different man. It turns out he met up with Voldemort in a forest somewhere, and despite that brilliant mind, fell victim to the persuasive powers and brainwashing of the weakened dark lord; he even gave Voldemort part of his physical body, hence the concealing, odiferous turban. And from that point on, his life was no longer his own.
Quirrell was abandoned by Voldemort and thus killed in the confrontation with Harry Potter, and we never heard much about him after that. I hope he was given proper respects at his funeral, because he never managed to do much harm, and I feel he was a victim more than an accomplice of Voldemort's.
Harry sees Snape threaten Quirrell in the forest '...the twins were punished for bewitching snowballs to bounce off professor Quirrell's turban...' Quirrell teaching class Portrait of a wimpy Quirrell Quirrell on a new tarot card

"His turban, he told them, had been given to him by an African prince as a thank-you for getting rid of a troublesome zombie, but they weren't sure they believed this story. For one thing, when Seamus Finnigan asked eagerly to hear how Quirrell had fought off the zombie, Quirrell went pink and started talking about the weather; for another, they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, and the Weasley twins insisted that it was stuffed full of garlic as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went. ."
SS, pg 134

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