TBAY: Letter in a Bottle (Sirius's owl post volume)

[sffcorgi]

No: HPFGUIDX 41526

<"))><

Corgi trotted hesitantly out onto the sandy beach of Theory Bay after
a careful perusal of the the Museum.  She wasn't sure this was really
going to work, but she was a Corgi, and Corgis are very determined
Dogs when they put their minds to things... like theories.  Puffing
vigorously, she inflated a donut-shaped pool toy (Rowlings Purple,
with Gryffindor-coloured flowers), and set it floating on the gently
lapping water.

The pool toy struggled to stay afloat as the Dog loaded her small,
dust-covered can(N)on (found sitting in a neglected corner of the
Museum) on one side, a jousting lance on the other (with which to
mount a defence... of some sort), and finally, her own self in the
middle.

As the inflated ring rode precariously low in the shallows, Corgi
put her heraldic talents to good use and bellowed across the waters,
'Hey!  Does anybody care that in Chapter 30 of GoF, Dumbledore told
Harry, "You are not Sirius's only correspondent."?  Don't you think
Sirius was writing back and forth with Remus and maybe even the Old
Gang the whole time?!

'After all, what -else- can one do in a half-freezing cave in
Scotland all year while waiting for one's godson to be in mortal
danger?  We know Padfoot was collecting newspapers - Ch. 27, "Padfoot
Returns".  And we can certainly infer from the immediate way Sirius
set off at Dumbledore's instruction (Ch. 36, "The Parting of the
Ways") that he had a definite location in mind, so he knew where at
least one of the Old Gang lived.

'Doesn't that suggest strongly that Sirius was collating the news
with fill-in commentary from Remus, with whom it was safe to
correspond, as he already knew of Sirius's innocence; and possibly
the others, once Dumbledore had "softened the ground" with a letter
of re-introduction?  I rather doubt the letters would have been
particularly chatty, from the style as illustrated in canon, but a
"Dumbledore mentioned this" and a "Remus told me that" would not
seem out of place.'

Throat sore from the long loud speech, the Corgi settled back down
into the water to wait hopefully for some reaction.

><))~>

Corgi
corgi at sff.net