COS Chapter 4 - At Flourish and Blotts

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 23390

--- Zarleycat at aol.com wrote:
> I think that whatever charms, wards, magic has been
> placed on the 
> Dursleys' house will alert the proper authorities if
> Harry goes 
> missing.  How this system will let Dumbledore, the
> MoM or whoever, 
> where Harry might be is still a mystery to me.  

I agree with you that there are probably "Harry on the
move!" alarms.  As far as how Dumbledore would know
Harry's at the Burrow, surely there are some
HP-universe equivalents to the basic scrying spell? 
IOW, some spell Dumbledore can do to look in on Harry.
 This could also explain how Fudge knew to wait at the
Leaky Cauldron for Harry at the beginning of POS. 
 
> As for 2 people travelling
> together - since 
> it seems fairly easy to fall out of the wrong
> fireplace, and also 
> does not seem to be the physically smoothest way to
> transport 
> oneself, if two people start off at the same place
> at the same time, 
> maybe one might inadvertenly jostle the other into
> popping out at the 
> wrong destination.

It seems that 2 people definitely can*not* use Floo
powder at once.  Remember when the Weasleys picked
Harry up for the QWC?  First Mr. Weasley came through,
then each of the twins, then Ron.  We had separate
entrances for each of them.  Same when they left,
except George took the trunk with him.  Perhaps Floo
Powder simply won't work on more than one living
person.
 
> Well, I've let people at work know. I work at a Big
> 5 accounting 
> firm, so people tend to be just a tad formal and
> serious (no, not 
> Sirius, unfortunately) in their work mode.  

Really?  How interesting. :)  I work at Andersen, and
when my co-worker (who I was trying to addict to HP)
had a copy of PS/SS on her desk, almost everyone who
walked by stopped and made comments about how great HP
was.  Not at all serious...though I'm still keeping my
eye out for Sirius. ;)



Andrea
7 1/2 inches, maple, phoenix feather

=====
"Reality is for people who lack imagination."

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger
http://phonecard.yahoo.com/