Professor Quirinus Quirrell



The first Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher of Harry Potter, Professor Quirrell maintained a severe sense of mystery throughout the first installment in the HP series. Harry sympathized with his professor, as Quirrell often seemed nice, though was terribly afraid of everything remotely fearsome and stuttered horribly. However, Harry's impression of Quirrell turned out to be dead wrong when the professor revealed himself to be the villain of the story, and a pawn in Lord Voldemort's master plan.