Floo Powder and Security at Hogwarts

[Daibhaid & Lynne]

No: HPFGUIDX 32890

Eloise wrote:

> Megan refers to the incident where Snape gets Lupin to
> floo into his office.
> This raises some security issues in my mind.
>
> Why don't the students use floo powder to get around
> the school? Is it just
> that the school is so complex that they wouldn't be
> able to get off at the
> right stop? Or is there some enchantment which stops them?

Because of the enchantments of Hogwarts, specifically noted in
_Hogwarts, a History_, sorry Amazon dot com doesn't carry
this...yet. :^), you cannot spell yourself into the school or in
the school. It would make more sense to floo around the school
but at the same time with the problem Harry had in his first use
of it landing up in "Knockturn Alley" well...

> Can you floo in and out of Hogwarts? The head in the
> fire thing which Sirius
> uses seems to be related. No-one , as far as I can
> remember either considers
> that this may be how he gets into the castle, or
> equally, states that it is
> impossible, as we are told several times about dis/apparation.

Not really the head in the fire is sort of their intercom system.

> How on earth do you keep anything secure with locks,
> standard or magical,
> when a first year can open both the door behind which
> Fluffy lurked and
> Snape's office, which he tells us was locked with a
> spell which only a wizard
> could break. The place is full of wizards, so what's
> the point? Why doesn't
> he have a password , like the dorms and Dumbledore's office?



Granted it would make sense to have some doors spelled with locks
like the great doors of Moria in LOTR. :^)

My 2p

Daibhaid