Various Topics, Including Spy Snape and Speculative Sexy Sirius

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 18253

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Monika wrote::
> > > When he talked to Harry via long-distance fire in
> > > Gryffindor Tower he was apparently not living on
> > > rats at the time, and had even managed to get a haircut.
> > I always wondered where he was during that time. He had
> > been back to England for a few weeks (since he came
> > back in October and he met Harry in the Gryffindor
> > common room in November). Where did he stay then?
> 
> I like to imagine that he was staying with Remus, in an isolated 
cottage
> or cabin suitable for depressed werewolves to sulk in. Speculation 
on
> whether Remus owned, rented, or borrowed the cottage, from whom he
> borrowed it (Dumbledore? or it came with a job as watchman over some
> deserted antiquity or beast preserve?) or how he came to own it
> (Inheritance? Purchase? With what money?) and when he came to own 
it.


If this is the case and he is staying with Remus, then why does he 
have to sneak into a wizarding household in order to use their 
fireplace?   I think that he looks healthier and less unkempt because 
he has only recently returned from foreign climes, and hasn't been 
living rough for long.

Catherine