Some stuff about PoA, Moving Pictures, and Harry's permission slip

[cryptykgrl at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15151

    I reread PoA yesterday, mainly because I love Remus Lupin (and it seems 
we'll be seeing him again, I'm very happy about this) and Sirius Black.  And 
there's also the fact that it makes me cry more than GoF does - for various 
reasons, one being the fact that Harry comes so close to living with Sirius 
and then can't - yes, I cry easily.  Also, I was very tired yesterday.  
Anyhow - it made me think about a couple of things:
    1) About the moving pictures, when a person dies, apparently the picture 
continues to move:
    "He stopped on a picture of his parents' wedding day.  There was his 
father waving up at him, beaming, the untidy black hair Harry had inherited 
standing up in all directions."
    but if we take the soul theory that someone mentioned (I don't know who, 
sorry), then what would happen to that photo (which Sirius was in) if the 
Dementor's Kiss had in fact been administered?  Would Sirius continue to 
move, or would it revert to a regular photograph?  Or would he perhaps 
disappear from the picture altogether?
    2) At the end of PoA, when Harry is on the train home, Pig shows up at 
the window carrying a letter from Sirius.  Enclosed in that letter is a note 
giving Harry permission to go to Hogsmeade when the rest of the school goes.  
Wouldn't that cause some problems?  Early in the book, it's Minerva who 
collects the slips from all the Gryffindors, so you would think that to go to 
Hogsmeade, he would have to give his note to her in GoF.  However, correct me 
if I'm wrong, but she doesn't know that Sirius is innocent, does she?  I 
mean, if all of a sudden, Harry gave her a note signed by a wizard who she 
thought had murdered 13 innocent people, then escaped from Azkaban and was 
still out there somewhere, wouldn't that make her just a little suspicious? 

~Erin~