New place Harry visits (was Sucking & Blowing souls)

Tue Dec 31 21:14:40 UTC 2002

No: HPFGUIDX 49037

bboy_mn wrote:

> The new place in the wizard's world that Harry will visit. Could
> it be Godric's Hollow, Egypt, the Ministry of Magic, or ....
> perhaps Azkaban?
>
> What if, in an effort to clear Sirius's name, the Ministry agrees
> to a new impartial and fair trial during which they will weigh the
> original evidence and the new evidence, and make a new ruling on
> Sirius's guilt or innocents. But, the only way the Ministry will
> consider it, is if Sirius turns himself in as a show of good
> faith. Which means that until the end of the trial, Sirius is back
> in Azkaban. OR... it could be a sham of a trial and Sirius,
> despite four witnesses and Dumblefore's support, is convict, or
> worse yet, they change their mind about the trial and send him to
> Azakaban ,and maybe even to the Dementor's kiss. 
>
> I see a shame of a trial, execution of the kiss set for a later
> date. Dumbledore, Harry, and Company must break into Azkaban which
> is now thought to be under the assumed influence of Voldemort, and
> break Sirius out. 

I agree with you that Godric's Hollow or Azkaban are places Harry 
could go to. 

Egypt I don't think so. JKR used Egypt so that Scabbers could appear 
on the newspaper which gave Sirius enough strength to escape 
Azkaban. 

I personally think that there should be a really good reason to 
force Harry to go to the MoM, I think he wouldn't want to go there 
just to visit Mr. Weasley.

JKR said that in Book 5 we will know more about Lily and James 
lives, so I think it is very likely that Harry will go to Godric's 
Hollow.

As for Azkaban I agree that the most probable way for Harry to go 
there would be to rescue someone. The Dementors surely will turn to 
Voldemort's side so anyone could be caught unfairly and end up in 
Azkaban, without the need of a trial.

I don't think the Ministry will want to give Sirius a fair trial. He 
was about to be kissed by a Dementor, even though Harry, Ron and 
Hermione insisted he was innocent. Snape made Fudge believe that the 
kids had been brainwashed. Even Dumbledore knew there was no way 
Fudge would believe the kids and the only way he saw to save 
Sirius's life was for Harry and Hermione to use the Time Turner, 
with all the risks using the TT brings (we've talked about that a 
lot), not to mention that if they got caught they were to be sent to 
Azkaban. H&H risked a lot saving Sirius. 

Worse than that: Dumbledore and Fudge have now parted ways. There is 
no reason why the MoM would offer Sirius a fair trial, and Sirius, 
Dumbledore and the kids know that, so if it would happen, they would 
get suspicious and wouldn't agree to it. 

The other place I find highly likely Harry may go is St. Mungo's 
Hospital. We know Neville's parents are there, that Lucius Malfoy 
donates a lot of money to it, that someone in there irresponsibly 
told Rita Skeeter that Harry was "loosing it" (in GoF). I feel that 
Lucius Malfoy has a lot of power in there and that maybe he is 
influencing the "treatment" the Longbottoms receive there (just a 
guess). But nobody realizes it, or nobody has proof, or Malfoy 
threatens those who do realize it. It seems that Neville will play 
an important role in one of the next books. I think Harry and 
Neville will help each other out at some point.

Anyway,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Sharana