Polyjuice workings/Azkaban's location

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 36854

> Eloise:
> Which brings me back to the problems I always have with Mrs Crouch. How on 
> earth did a dying woman manage that? It's hard enough to believe that she 
> actually managed to drink some within an hour of death, without adding 
> problems of preparation.
> 

> Eloise

Dementors are blind, and cannot distinguish between humans. They sensed 
a human inside the cell, and that was good enough for them (you don't 
play with your food, nor argue with it, and that's what dementors think 
of human: we aren't alive, were just the coffee-machine that serves 
their snacks: feelings). I think that when Mrs. Criuch died, one of the 
dementors just took her out to the back garden and buried her (or threw 
her into the sea, or whatever). I don't imagine that many DE receive 
visits while in Azkaban (Sirius receided one visit in 12 years, and he 
was important), so no human actually noticed the change.

While on the subject, the Lexicon places the prison of Azkaban in an 
island in the North sea. However, when I recently re-read PoA, Sirius 
mentions that he was near Privet Drive because "Couldn't pass up the 
opportunity of looking up Harry **before starting his trip North**" 
(trip towards Hogwarts were he knew he could find Peter)(liberal 
translation form my own language). I don't think that Sirius had that 
much free time that he could cross twice England (from North to South 
and back again) just for the pleasure of Harry's company. I think it 
would fit better that Azkaban was in the Sea SOUTH of England, and thus 
Sirius just had to make a small de-tour to visit Harry. Another point 
is that we know that Sirius scapes the prison one or two days before 
Harry runs away from Privet Drive (it's still fresh news: the Dursleys 
act mildly surprised about it), and it would take Sirius' dog form 
quite a bit longer to reach a beach and get to London if starting from 
the North, but would be quite easier to do so from the South. I suppose 
he could have apparated, but we have no canon evidence of Sirius 
knowing how to apparate (although why then he has to run to Hogwarts in 
dog form instead of just apparating in Hogsmeade escapes me).

In conclusion: I believe Azkaban is actually in an island south of 
England (isle of man? my geography, specially the one outside my 
country, is not very extense)

Anyway, I'm sure there must be a few holes in the theory, so let me 
know what you feel about it. I would be grateful if someone could 
actually find the original text for me (it's PoA, ch. "Wormtail, 
Prongs, Moony, Padfoot", I think)

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf
(He who started writting this post preocupied because it was going to 
be a one-liner. ALso, he who was VERY wrong)