[HPforGrownups] Re: extra canon for safe house/MAGIC DISHWASHER

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 46544

> > > However, even more intriguing is that very first
> comment: " a 
> > series of   of strange rumours that have reached
> me here". We 
> > know that Sirius is in some tropical paradise,
> with huge 
> > multicoloured birds. What kind of  rumour would
> arrive there? <<
> > 
> > 
> > Er...how about the newspapers?>

SNIP

 
> Now, there are two problems with newspapers. One is,
> as always, that 
> Sirius is in hiding, so he wouldn't be attracting
> unwanted attention by 
> subscribing to a UK newspaper (and Bertha's
> disapearance and Frank 
> Bryce are not going to figure in a newspaper from
> whichever country 
> Sirius happen to be in). I already said that the
> World Cup disturbance 
> are top contenders for the rumours, but I feel that
> shouldn't be all. 
> The other is that RL newspapers tend to arrive quite
> late to tropical 
> countries, and so seems to do the owl post Harry
> sends his way. Which 
> brings me to the problem of timelines (and what I
> requested the help 
> for).
> 
> You see, we have to consider that by normal
> channels, Sirius lives at 
> least 15 days, and probably more, behind the UK WW,
> simply due to the 
> distances involved. I'm speaking from my own
> experience when I say that 
> in tropical countries getting access to relatively
> modern newspapers is 
> frankly impossible, and the less relation the
> country has with your 
> own, the worse the lag is (and Sirius won't be in a
> country that is 
> friendly with the UK WW, I should imagine). Now,
> from that I understand 
> that Harry's scar's news might have arrived sooner
> than the World Cup 
> disturbances or at almost the same time, and these
> wouldn't qualify as 
> rumours if he had gotten hold of a newspaper (about
> the only way to 
> arrive faster than Harry's owl). And even if it had
> arrived by 
> word-of-mouth, that would've been *a* rumour, not
> plural as indicated. 
> As I said, I'm not trying to know what the rumours
> were, just use them 
> as basis for another thread of MAGIC DISHWASHER and
> the safe house in 
> general.
> 
> Now, the other ideas: Frank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins
> and other possible 
> news, could someone please check how long
> before/after the letter were 
> published, and compare it to how much time it took
> for Harry's letter 
> to arrive to Sirius and back (the tone of the letter
> suggests that as 
> soon as Sirius received it he started his trek to
> England)? I'm not 
> sure about this, but I think you'll be able to see
> that he must have 
> left before most of those things saw the light, even
> in England. This 
> is only a hunch, though, so I'll leave to those that
> are awake while I 
> sleep to piece toghether their own theories, if they
> want.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Grey Wolf

I'm not positive (and can't find the passsage right
now), but wasn't it said that Dumbledore was in
contact with Sirius, just as Harry was?  And surely
Dumbledore would know everything that was going on.  


Rebecca

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