OOTP: Still Catching Up..

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 67726

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katy Cartee" <rainbow at r...> 
wrote:

> 1) What will happen to poor Buckbeak now? I wonder if Hagrid could 
have him
> back now that Macnair and Malfoy have been proven to be DEs?

My guess is that Buckbeak will simply disappear from our view, much 
like some characters that are written out of soap operas.  They get 
sent to a room, the hosiptal, a tropical island on vacation... and 
never come back.

> 2) JKR went to the trouble of explaining Disillusionment Charms to 
us, but
> then couldn't let Sirius use that as a means of "stretching his 
legs" and
> getting out of that horrible house every once in awhile? C'mon!

This has alwasy bothered me about Sirius' enforced incarceration in 
that house.  No one could figure out a way for him to get out, oh, I 
don't know, maybe once a month in some sort of wizard disguise?  He 
couldn't have been portkeyed somewhere? Disillusioned? Polyjuiced?  
When Harry is being accompanied to 12 Grimmauld Place early in the 
book, Lupin says something to the effect that they have to fly 
because there would be hell to pay for the use of an unauthorized 
portkey.  (I'm paraphrasing.) Yet, Dumbledore creates a portkey on 
the spot to send the Weasleys to London after Arthur is attacked by 
the snake.  Harry and Dumbledore portkey back to Hogwarts after the 
battle in the Dept. of Mysteries.  So, evidently you can't use 
portkeys except when you can.  Go figure.

 
> 4) Why wasn't the Minister of Magic aware of Harry's presence at 
the MOM
> sooner? He was using underage magic outside of Hogwarts all over 
the place!
> There should have been owls shooting around like fireworks!

It seems like the MoM has no security to speak of at night, and that 
pretty much anything can happen by anyone who happens to stroll in.  
Voldemort, Azkaban Death Eater escapees, wanted criminals...I guess 
no one thought to put any sort of security at the front doors to 
intercept people like this.

Marianne