Chapter Summary - PoA 10 & 11

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No: HPFGUIDX 19782


> 3. What do you think--=does= Sirius get into Hogwarts by the secret 
> passages?  If not, how?

Deceptively simple question!  You can't get into the Shrieking Shack 
except through the tunnel (though we can't be totally sure, it seems 
that Sirius can't Apparate at this time).  That would mean that he 
first came to Hogwarts by some other route.  This could either be in 
dog form overground to get through the Dementors, or through the 
Honeydukes passage.  He might have tried the broken passage and found 
it didn't work.

Once in Hogwarts, he could get to the Shrieking Shack and set up base 
there.  At first he would need to come out to get food;  later 
Crookshanks could help, once they had met (how?).  To get into 
Hogwarts he then just uses the Whomping Willow passage.  Although in 
the time of MWPP it was Peter's job as the smallest to pacify the 
tree, presumably Sirius can do it - it's just more tricky and risky.  
Again, Crookshanks takes on this job later.

> 4. Fudge says that Black's part in the Potters' deaths "isn't 
widely known." 
>   Is there any significance to the reason why not, i.e., is it 
deliberately 
> being kept secret, and if so, why?

I would guess that it's connected to the importance of the Potters as 
a target.  There was (is) something secret about the whole thing that 
means Dumbledore can't tell Harry at the end of PS/SS that probably 
feeds through to the Fidelius charm.
 
> 6. How does the Fidelius Charm work?  Does it hide you from 
everybody, from 
> one person only, from a selected list . . . ?

Again, deceptively simple... if a selected list, then what is special 
about the Secret Keeper?  Perhaps the answer is that it doesn't hide 
people in the sense that nobody knows where they are, rather, 
Voldemort (or whoever) can't see or get at them.  So Sirius, Lupin?, 
Dumbledore, Hagrid?, McGonagall?, or others might have known the 
Potters were in cottage X in Godric's Hollow, but only Peter could 
see them or AK them, or give others the ability to do so. More like a 
key to a safe than a radio tag.  Whether it would be proof against 
the wizard equivalent of a large bomb we just don't know.
 
> 7. What about the Marauder's Map?  The usual questions: in 2 ½ 
years, why 
> didn't Fred and George ever notice that their brother was 
frequently 
> accompanied by some guy named Peter Pettigrew?  does it show all of 
> Hogwarts?  does it show ghosts?  Etc. . . .

I can't answer the Pettigrew bit.  I don't have PoA with me, but my 
hazy memory is that Hagrid's cabin is off the map, so Lupin only sees 
Peter when they are coming back. (This might explain why Lupin and 
Snape don't see two Harrys or Hermiones, if the timing is right).
 
David