Sirius's owl post / trial-Azkaban / M.Fletcher / canon Draco's a snot not DE

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 41569

Corgi wrote:

<< Don't you think Sirius was writing back and forth with Remus and 
maybe even the Old Gang the whole time?! >>

No, I don't think so. Sirius warned Harry to send a different owl 
each time, so that no one would get suspicious why an owl kept 
visiting that mountainside. Harry and Dumbledore could do that 
by using the school owls, but no one else had access to so many 
different owls.

Sarah Legend wrote:

<< But on the other hand, would all the wizards from the MoM, 
Dumbledore, family & friends (& Rita Skeeter and any other WW 
paparazzi) really want to travel to Azkaban? >>

However bad the trial people might feel about spending hours 
and hours with Dementors sucking out all their happiness, human 
guards supervising Azkaban prisoners would be there even longer 
and therefore feel even worse. I therefore believe that there 
are no human guards stationed at Azkaban. And, while reading your 
post, I suddenly got the idea that the REAL purpose of Cheering 
Charms is to prepare people for being briefly exposed to Dementors.

Karen wrote:

<< IIRC a 'Fletcher' was a maker of arrows back in the days that 
arrows were made. >>

Because arrows have a connection with bows, do you think there 
could be a connection between Mundungus Fletcher and Bowman Wright. 
(Bowman Wright invented the Golden Snitch centuries ago. He made a 
nice piece of money from it. He lived in Godric's Hollow:. The 
proceeding  is all from QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES, but the following 
is speculation: he could have been an ancestor of James Potter, the 
one from whom the Potters inherited all that money.)

<< I'm stuck for what Mundungus could mean though. >>

"Mundungus" means a bad-smelling pipe tobacco. It is said to come 
from a Spanish word meaning tripe.  

Darrin wrote:

<< Let's just say that his bragging about Cedric being dead wipes 
that one out. >>

I don't think Draco was bragging about Cedric being dead. I think 
that Draco set out to tell Harry that Harry's friends and himself 
were on the death list, in the spirit of "I told you so!" (Huh, ickle 
Drakey's ickle feelings are *still* hurt that Harry rejected him in 
favor of Ron and Hermione). 

But, along with being enough to shout out his loyalty to the Dark 
Lord in the middle of the Hogwarts Express despite his father having 
advised him about discretion), he also was dumb enough to interupt 
his own dramatic declaration ("Mudbloods and Muggle-lovers first!") 
with an awkward factual correction ("not first, Cedric was first"). 

I don't believe at all that that scene was Draco warning Harry to 
guard his friends over the summer because they're in danger, but 
interupting his own declamation would have been just as stupid in 
that case.

Certainly Harry, Hermione, and Weasleys *understood* it as Draco 
gloating over Cedric's death, but I think Draco might be displeased 
that Cedric is dead and even hold it as a grudge against Harry (like 
making up his mind that Harry had deliberately used Cedric as a human 
shield). Because Cedric was a handsome and talented boy from an old 
pureblood family, and therefore would have been a valuable recruit to 
the Voldemort/Malfoy/racist side, if only someone had had a chance to 
explain to him how wrongheaded his father's pro-Ministry ideas were.

If Draco ever understands how V ordered Cedric terminated without a 
thought, then Draco would know that the purity of his blood and even 
his father's power do not protect him against his murderous chosen 
Dark Lord. That could cause him to turn to Dumbledore and Harry's 
side purely for the sake of self-preservation ... as foreshadowed by 
him running away from V drinking unicorn blood in the Forbidden 
Forest, as so many people have mentioned in this thread.

I prefer fanon Draco.