Why? Harry himself respects Quirrel (as a powerful wizard, all questions of motivation aside) more than enough to emulate and quote him.
When Harry asks his brain “what would Voldemort say”, the response comes out almost word-for-word what Quirrell would say. This despite Harry’s previous conscious disparagement of Voldemort.
Notice that the one we see actually spreading the story is Quirrell.
It might just as easily that really he [...] invented the story to tell others once he became Quirrelmort and wanted stories to disparage Voldemort rather than to enhance fear of him.
You know, right up until this latest chapter I would have dismissed this idea out of hand for how sloppy it would be- he states that one was left alive to spread the story which no one else has ever heard? It wouldn’t exactly be difficult to check, either.
But Quirrell was apparently a Ravenclaw, so I’m not sure what to think anymore.
When Harry asks his brain “what would Voldemort say”, the response comes out almost word-for-word what Quirrell would say. This despite Harry’s previous conscious disparagement of Voldemort.
You know, right up until this latest chapter I would have dismissed this idea out of hand for how sloppy it would be- he states that one was left alive to spread the story which no one else has ever heard? It wouldn’t exactly be difficult to check, either.
But Quirrell was apparently a Ravenclaw, so I’m not sure what to think anymore.