Neville's Fear, Security at the MOM and Floo Travel

[jsmithqwert]

No: HPFGUIDX 67981

> 
> jsmithqwert wrote:
> > Also, are we sure that you can travel from the fireplaces in
> > Hogwarts.  It would be pretty pointless to have an apparation ban 
if
> > you could use floo powder.  Also, if you could travel into a
> > Hogwart's fireplace, Sirius would have done so in PoA rather than
> > trying to break into the castle via the portrait hole.
> 
> But Sirius was able to use Floo to make his head travel to Hogwarts 
on
> several occasions. So obviously Floo is a way of getting into
> Hogwarts...hmm, that does seem like a security problem, doesn't it?
> 
> ~Katy~
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I had just assumed that the Floo Regulatory Panel enabled the 
communicative properties of the Floo Network so that parents could 
talk to children in emergencies, etc. . . and just deactivated the 
actual traveling component. 

jsmithqwert