[HPforGrownups] Re: Queries about Sirius's escape (slight FF)

[JessaDrow at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 54919

In a message dated 4/8/03 2:48:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bboy_mn at yahoo.com 
writes:

> The likelihood that a dog, especially a weak dog could swim across
> miles of cold ocean is pretty slim, extremely slim, but the odds that
> a human could make the swim are less than zero. So once again, being
> an animagus works in Sirius favor. Even as a dog, he shouldn't have
> been able to swim that far, but the boiling desire to catch the true
> betrayer of the Potters and to protect Harry was enough to give him
> the strength to do the impossible. Things like this do happen in real
> life, people overcome impossible odds fueled by nothing but a fierce
> determination to survive.
> 

Why would he need to swim though? I'm assuming that he could apparate. And 
while you can't onto the school grounds, he could to Hogsmead. 


"Jessa"