[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius and the Witch's Hump

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 36116

Well, you know I hadn't worried about this until Cindy brought it up.
I think I had always sort of assumed that in his animagus form, Sirius was 
hanging out in the Forbidden Forest. Now, how the Forest relates to the 
Hogwarts boundary, I haven't worked out, nor can I tell from the map in the 
Lexicon.
Other than that, as an extremely large dog, I assume that he might in fact be 
able to leap over the boundary wall, or in fact simply walk through the 
gates, since the Dementors would not sense him. Or, he could swim across the 
lake - he swam from Azkaban, after all. Again, I'm unsure exactly how the 
lake relates to the boundary: I get the impression that on that side of the 
grounds, it *is* the boundary.
Once inside the grounds, entry to the castle shouldn't have been too 
difficult as the front doors appear always to be unlocked. Even when they did 
do something about the doors, Prof. Flitwick only taught them to recognise a 
picture if Sirius.

Eloise ( who wishes that they would print a map of the Hogwarts environs in 
the books, like the maps in the Narnia books and is astounded that the HP 
media machine hasn't spotted this gap in the market and got JKR to provide 
one)


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