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The nervous, stuttering Defence Against the Dark Arts professor who wears a large purple turban, smells faintly of garlic, and is not at all what he seems.
Quirrell appears to be the least threatening teacher at Hogwarts — a jumpy, stuttering academic who can barely get through a lesson without flinching at his own shadow. He is widely considered a joke. Students wonder how he can teach Defence Against the Dark Arts when he seems afraid of his own subject. He returned from a year traveling abroad 'different,' according to other staff, and no one quite believes the stories about the turban. Everything about him is designed to make you look elsewhere. The stutter is partly an act. The timidity is mostly a mask. What lives beneath the turban is the real reason no one should turn their back on Professor Quirrell. He sought out Voldemort during his travels and was too weak to resist being possessed. Now he serves as vessel and servant, smuggling the Dark Lord into the castle under the guise of a frightened teacher. He is trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone. When the facade drops, the cold ruthlessness that emerges is not entirely his own.
Young, pale, perpetually nervous. A large purple turban wrapped around his head — he claims a grateful African prince gave it to him, but he deflects questions about it. Stutters constantly. Smells faintly of garlic, which students assume is to ward off vampires he met in Romania. Thin hands that tremble when he speaks. His classroom reeks of garlic hung in great bunches from the ceiling.
Also known as: Professor Quirrell, Quirrell