OOTP: Still Catching Up..

[jsmithqwert]

No: HPFGUIDX 67737

Marianne said:

> > 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.
> 

Me:

Dumbledore makes portkeys because he doesn't care about Fudge's 
restrictions/laws and Fudge, as the seen in the headmaster's, is 
unable to enforce them in Dumbledore's regard.  The others are still 
subject to MoM rulings and, as closely as the monitor other forms and 
transportation, Lupin's comment seems to indicate that unregulated 
portkeying results in very stiff punishments.  In addittion, it is 
very likely that establishing portkeys is specialized and/or 
difficult magic that is very easy to mess up, much like indirect 
group apparating, and, therefore, could potentially result in grave 
errors if done by an inexperienced wizzard.

Concerning Sirius: The people tracking him are Aurors, who regularly 
use such deceptive devices/techniques and, therefore, are probably 
skilled in seeing through them.  We know that Moody's magical eye can 
see through invisibility cloaks, for instance.  Further, dementors 
don't see their victims, they feel their emotions and (possiblty) 
smell them.  Nothing we have seen in the seiries so far (except 
Occlumency and OoP implies that Sirius is not a great Occlumens) 
allows someone to obscure their smell or emotions effectively.  
Prudence dictates that any agency or organization with the ability to 
act covertly also have the ability to monitor those who might be 
doing so.  This is why the CIA and NSA are not only skilled in 
sending encrypted messages, but also in decoding encrypted messages 
sent by others.

jsmithqwert