In Philosophers Stone, Quirrell tells Harry that Snape was trying to save Harry from him by casting a counter curse. Quirrell said that in front of (or behind, technically) Voldemort.
How on earth did Voldemort later ignore that or Severus talk his way around that he was actively protecting Voldemort's arch enemy?
i'm sorry there is just something so fun-knee about the end of the 'philosopher's stone'. when harry finds out snape was trying to save him and he looks at snape in the great hall to see if anything has changed between them and snape is just mean mugging him across the hall like:
this man really had beef with a 12 year old how can you not laugh.
also when harry told quirrell he thought snape was the real big bad and quirrell replied that that's just his aesthetic
Not Potter Family Opera related but God has this idea been chewing at me like that au.
Okay so the Horcrux in Harry is a little more active in Canon, not overly so just a bit. It brings out his more Slytherin tendencies, but the biggest influence it has is when he actually gets to Hogwarts. He doesn't actually get into Slytherin because of Dumbledore's manipulations but the Hat tried to tell Harry as much as it could while it sorted him that Slytherin was his true place.
This makes him more open to making friends with Slytherins, but not Draco as they still had their mini confrontations like in canon.
The biggest kicker is that the horcrux is attracted to the other horcruxs, more like it feels a deep connection to them. Little Harry doesn't understand this feeling mind you so when he meets Professor Quirrell he feels this connection to him. Little Harry feels comfortable around him, safe, powerful, etc.
.....Little Harry comes to the conclusion that Professor Quirrell is his dad. Not like actually mind you but he basically in his mind thinks this is what family feels like and sees Quirrell as a father figure and keeps going to him for advice and giving him hugs or trying to help him around the classroom and Quirrell and Voldemort are just so freaking confused.
Voldemort sees this as an opportunity to manipulate young Harry but spoiler alert.....Quirrell gets attached. He's never settled down and he doesn't have any siblings with kids but he's always adored kids, it's why he became a teacher and Harry is growing on him.
Snape is so freaking suspicious of this and so freaking worried but he is also an ass who can't warn Harry of his worries in a proper way so he kept bullies him and makes vague comments and thinks that's enough. Of course this makes Harry even more attached to Quirrell.
I need to rant about Professor Quirrell, because he’s a character that scared the hell out of me as a kid for multiple reasons. First off, I feel really bad for him- always have. Looking back at the film now a decade later, I’m oddly attracted to him…
The poor guy was just a smart Ravenclaw that went unnoticed throughout his time at Hogwarts, so he invested his time in the dark arts. His shy and unstable personality may be one trait that people point at to describe his downfall, but I see it as evilly genius.
Throughout the beginning of the film, his shyness fit his looks so well that his suspicious mannerisms flew right under my nose until the very end. His voice changed from stuttering and soft, to cunning and demanding. There’s no way that shy personality of his wasn’t a disguise. The way he just stands there looking at Harry, not blinking once, describing how he tried to kill Harry in full detail and how he fooled everyone around him is so incredibly intimidating.
Ian Hart played him so well and made him one of the most fantastically creepy characters I’ve ever seen. Quirrel has honestly become a comfort character of mine now (due to the fact that I have a really bad habit of falling in love with characters that frightened me as a child).
The Defense Against the Dark Arts Curse is a Bad Karma Curse
It's too specific to be otherwise. Consider:
Quirrell agreed to host Voldemort. He dies by that very same connection.
Lockhart wiped out people's memories. His memory is wiped by his own hand.
Lupin stood by as Snape was bullied. Now the wizarding word looks by as Snape forces him out of his job.
Mad Eye Moody locked up people in Azkaban. He's locked in a trunk by a death eater (I'm guessing that if you've affected enough people, you get karma-d early).
Barty Crouch served Voldemort. His soul is sucked out by a dementor.
Umbridge made the lives of nonhumans pretty much hell on earth. She is attacked by centaurs, who are not human.
Snape was a servant of Voldemort once. Now everyone thinks he's the traitor.
The Carrows tortured students. Now they get tortured by a student-and humiliated.
Alright but professor quirrell was right to have chronic anxiety. I mean have you seen the stuff that goes on in the wizarding world like you have no idea what's real or an illusion, your best mate could just be some rando, there's curses that vary from mild inconvenience to downright dangerous that children learn.
Like honestly, the wizarding world is so anxiety inducing I'm shocked most wizards haven't opted for the muggle life or just died from panicked induced heart attacks