Eneasz Brodsky

Like, that is where the heart pulls you.

And then there's that tension for the entire rest of the book.

The Hermione who's doing the good thing that you really want to do, or Quirrell who's doing the effective thing and the, you know, making good case for it, like the he's right kind of thing, and yet he's not.

Yeah.

That is the very first conflict when he sees, I know.

And then he goes through, I mean, very quickly, not in detail, but he goes through a lot of the ways that they fought each other, Quirrell and Hermione, and how it escalated, and how Quirrell kept trying harder and harder to either corrupt Hermione or to pull her away from Harry until eventually, in the end, he just kills her.

He's like, I cannot win against her.

I have to remove her from Harry's life or he's going to win.

And so he killed her instead.

And...

William says that that is the final conflict, actually, and that is where Quirrell lost.

And then he says the final confrontation between Quirrell and Harry where they shift from social to physical combat with Harry aligned unambiguously with the light is almost an epilogue.

Like that scene in the graveyard where he kills all the Death Eaters, that was not the climax.

That was a denouement to the main conflict because the main conflict between Hermione and Quirrell over Harry, that was settled when Quirrell could not win the debate and pulled out a gun instead.

That was when he lost.

And he ends it by saying, Hermione doesn't even need to be alive to beat Quirrell.

Which is just fucking amazing.

This essay is so good.

Yeah.

I hate to bring this back to religion, especially because it's doing nothing for the whole rationality isn't a religion claims.