James's death

[pt4ever]

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From: pt4ever
Subject: Re: James's death
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7453] Re: James's death
Date: 8/21/00 3:37 pm  (ET)

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There are a lot of inconsistancies in POA, mostly I just ignore them
because I enjoyed the book so much. But one question kept bugging me:
since Sirius escaped Azkaban by turing himself into a dog, and had done
so many times before, why did he not escape years ago??? He could have
just turned himself into a dog and walked out of Azkaban twelve years
ago - surely no one would stayed in Azkaban just becuase they would be
an escaped convict??
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I think it's because he really didn't have anything to escape *for*
until he saw the picture of Scabbers in the Daily Prophet. Then he
realized that Pettigrew was still alive and at the same place as Harry
-- a dangerous combination. If he'd escaped Azkaban earlier, the hunt
for him would be just as frantic as it was in the beginning of PoA,
and there would've been more of a chance of him being caught. After all,
he didn't have Buckbeak to escape on, either.

-- JoAnna