[HPforGrownups] Sirius, broomsticks , Dumdledore

[Susanna Luhtanen]

No: HPFGUIDX 28799



Susanna Luhtanen
s_luhtanen at hotmail.com



>From: laoisecronin at yahoo.com
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>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Sirius, broomsticks , Dumdledore
>Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:17:23 -0000
>
>  I might have missed something but i'm not really sure how sirius got
>into the castle in POA. Fred and George say that there are 7
>passages.Filch knew about four of them,one was caved in ,one was
>under the wallaping willow and the seventh was the statue of the
>witch.we can assume that he didn't try to get in through any of the
>known passages or the caved in passage.That only leaves two.
>   To get through the statue he needed to be thin,which he was so he
>could have fitted but doesen't it need to be opened using a wand , as
>far as i know he doesn't have one.Also there is ron's argument that
>he would have had to break in to Honeydukes to get to the passage.
>   This seems to suggest that the only way he could have got in was
>from the shrieking shack. But this would mean he would be outside and
>would still have to get through the school and to the Gryfinndor
>tower (just a thought ,i read before that sirius may have been in
>slytherin some thing to do with all dark wizards coming from there
>but it is very unlikely that he would know where the Gryfinndor
>commen room is unless he was in that house....but then he did help
>write the marauders map.....which would mean he knows where all the
>commen rooms are.....????..)Anyway it would have been pretty hard to
>sneck through the school unnoticed as sirius or a dog especially with
>all the added security after he attacked the fat lady.Does anyone
>else think that it seems a bit too hard or was it over looked so the
>storylines could develop from it? ...wait a minute... was he living
>in the forbidden forest??...he would still have had to cross the
>grounds and get through the school though.
>   Shouldn't there have been some kind of gaurd to stop him getting
>through the forest anyway??

Um - I guess he came trough Shrieking Shack. And Sirius knew all about 
Whomping Willow, & all secret passages in the map. He also was in 
Gryffindor, talked Crookshanks to steal the password from Neville (who had 
written it down and got himself into a lot of trouble). What I do wonder, is 
how the Maurauder's back at school managed to get ALL Houses into their Map? 
Did they use Polyjuice Potion the way Harry&Ron or somehow managed to get 
the password like Harry got from Cedric?

>  I was also wondering who paid for Harry's broomstick in PP.Was the
>money taken from his vault or did the school pay for it?.It seems a
>bit unfair either way. If the money was taken from his vault it was
>taken with out his knowledge(as far as we know) and nobody even asked
>him what kind of broom he would like (i suppose he knew nothing about
>them but it's nice to be asked anyway) It seems very unlikly that the
>school paid for it.If the school could afford to buy a nimbus two
>thousand for Harry why are the school brooms so bad .And wouldn't it
>be unfair to all the other student's

Em - the Nimbus 2000 was bought by collection money of the teachers. It was 
a gift from the teachers collectively, not the school. (Snape probably 
didn't take part, though all others did). They gave him the broom because he 
had talent - he flied excellently with the bad broom to get Neville's memory 
ball - and was to be a member of the House Team in Quidditch.

Hermione's reaction - angry about them considering it as a reward of 
breaking rules... none of /them/ figured it as reward for helping Neville to 
get his property back, but I see it as such.

>I read a post last week that said Dumbledore might be Harry's
>grandfather.I thought this was unlikely to start with and then i
>thought that if he was his grandfather Harry would have seen him in
>the mirror of erised.Wouldn't he? But i suppose as he doesn't see
>Aunt Petunia either it could still be possible (it would have been a
>good way for him to find out though ,if he was)

It doesn't tell the truth - it tells the Desire. And Harry sure doesn't 
desire Dursleys as his family!!!

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