Oops on intercepted mail

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 32912

Pippin:
> >> Sirius is constantly expressing concern that his mail might be 
intercepted, but so far as we've seen all owls have always 
reached their addressee unhindered. << 

Not so. Dobby brandishes a summer's worth of letters he 
intercepted at the beginning of CoS. And Vernon Dursley was 
quite handy at coming between Harry and his owls. Harry's 
Hogwarts letter had to be hand delivered by Hagrid.<

Oops, yes, you're quite right.  That was a rash sweeping statement made without much thought or consultation...  *BUT* it does call to mind another possible Flint, haha... Harry's letters were flying out of the Dursley fireplace, right? Yet in GoF, the fireplace appears to be totally blocked by the presence of an ecklectical fire (with a Plug), to the extent that the Weasleys are all stuck inside and have to blast the eckle-trickery thing out.

So OK, maybe the electric fire was put in after PS/SS, or the it's just magic factor means the letters can sneak around the fire or something.  All the same...

Tabouli.




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