10 Harry Potter Plot Twists You Never Saw Coming
5. Voldemort Is Living Rent-Free In Professor Quirrell's Head
We all know the story.
You take a gap year to Albania, share a few jars with the locals, wake up the next day not knowing who or where you are, nursing a splitting headache...
For Hogwarts' Professor Quirinus Quirrell, this was one headache that no amount of aspirin, coffee and fried breakfast food was going to cure.
In a twist that could turn heads, we learn at the conclusion of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone that Lord Voldemort has been living in the rear of Quirrell's noggin for the entire school year. Presumably the other teachers assumed Quirrell had 'found himself' abroad and were too polite to comment on his new headgear - a totally inconspicuous purple turban.
Consumed by the essence of the Dark Lord, weak and timid Quirrell was made to serve his new master, drinking unicorn's blood and searching for the Philosopher's Stone in the hope of giving Voldemort new life and a body of his own.
Luckily Harry was there to use the magic power of hands or love or something, meaning Voldemort was once again banished and poor Quirrell was left for Henry Hoover.