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20 Facts About Quirrell (HP, 534 words, G)
Title: 20 Random Facts About Quirinus Quirrell
Rating: PG
Word Count: 534 words
A/N: Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest.
Title: 20 Random Facts About Quirinus Quirrell
Rating: PG
Word Count: 534 words
A/N: Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest.
- Quirrell was born on a rainy Thursday in June to George and Mildred Quirrell. They called him Bob.
- He changed his name to Quirinus after misunderstanding a Muggle woman talking about how the English loved queues.
- The Q2 nickname never caught on.
- Quirrell tried to tell himself this was because he was a Ravenclaw and they were far too serious a people for nicknames, but since he WAS a Ravenclaw, he didn't believe himself.
- He didn't like the rest of the Ravenclaws very much, except the Grey Lady who was very nice, if a bit too fond of Gothic romance.
- Still, he never regretted his sorting. Books were his favourite things.
- His least favourite thing were limes, to which he was deathly allergic, and which he held in unshakable dread.
- The resulting boggart was the only reason he didn't get an O on his Defence OWL.
- His spontaneous transfiguration of a lime into an almost perfectly realised life size model of Hogwarts earned him a special distinction in his NEWTs.
- The lime-Hogwarts was swapped for the real in 1972 under nebulous circumstances and for reasons that were never adequately explained, because Albus kept interrupting the interview to offer people sweets.
- Quirrell's patronus was a Dodo, although he believed it to be a flamingo and wasted many years trying to get it to look right.
- He once watched a program about flamingos on a Muggleborn friends telly and thought they were brilliant.
- Television was the reason he got so interested in Muggles, to the point where he ended up becoming Hogwarts Professor of Muggle Studies. He died before he could get a television to work in the school, to his eternal disappointment.
- Having twin interests in the Dark Arts and Muggles meant Quirrell was forever being paid visits by Ministry officials and shady men in skull masks, rarely at the same time, both of whom he greeted with confusion and cups of weak, lukewarm tea.
- Quirrell was fifteen when the Dark Lord was defeated the first time and skipped practicing 'riddikulus' to attend the party, where he completely failed to get off with Marigold Parkinson.
- He was twenty-four, just completing his fourth year as Muggle Studies professor, when Dumbledore offered him the Dark Arts position. Snape complained about his lack of practical experience and, since Quirrell couldn't argue with this, he sadly took a years sabbatical. It certainly had nothing to do with a messy break up with Sanguini at all.
- Quirrell defeated thirteen Hags armed only with a paperclip. He doesn't remember any of this, but details can be found, with names changed, on pages three-fourteen to three-twenty-nine of Holidays with Hags by Gilderoy Lockhart.
- He got the zombie off the African prince's back by bribing it with sexual favours. It was a surprisingly satisfying three months.
- When the shadows in an Albanian forest spoke to him of good and evil, and of how power was the only true measure of anything, he wasn't afraid at all -- and by the time he was, it was already beyond too late.
- Unicorn blood tastes of lime.