Floo and Fireplaces, Hagrid

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 68229

At 9:00 PM +0000 7/5/03, Indigo wrote:
>
>Umbridge said she was monitoring all the Floo network fireplaces in
>Hogwarts, which meant they couldn't use any fireplace in Hogwarts.
>
>But they might've been able to Hagrid's...but here's the Big IF:
>
>IF  Hagrid was connected to the Floo Networ.
>IF  Hagrid's fireplace wasn't also being watched.

I strongly suspect Hagrid's fireplace isn't hooked up to the Floo 
network.  If it were, surely they would have preferred for him to 
give Harry his Hogwarts letter by connecting the fireplace to 
Hut-on-the-rock and floo-ing him there instead of letting him fly 
there (presumably by broomstick or carpet - much more visible).

I don't think any of the fireplaces on the Hogwarts campus are usable 
for actual physical Floo-travel off-campus - they're on a intranet 
that doesn't connect to the outside world for travel, only for 
communication (the head-in-fireplace thing).  If they were, I'm sure 
it would have come up in the once-per-book "you can't Apparate in or 
out of Hogwarts" discussions.


>Or they could've gone to Hogsmeade and used a fireplace there.

Assuming they could acquire Floo powder and an unused fireplace - I 
doubt Madam Rosamerta would have taken well to six scratched and 
muddy students running into the Three Broomsticks and flooing out of 
her fireplace to the Ministry of Magic!



At 11:11 PM -0400 7/5/03, EnsTren at aol.com wrote, regarding Hagrid:
>Maybe he can "use magic" legally, but he can't because he hasn't graduated?
>
>Or maybe he can only use it at Hogwarts because he's now reconsidered a
>"student"

It seems that what happens at Hogwarts is normally pretty much out of 
the Ministry's hands.  That's the main reason Umbridge was sent to 
Hogwarts during OotP, and the reason for all the different 
Educational Decrees.  So, even if Hagrid is not sufficiently cleared 
in the Ministry's eyes to be officially permitted to use magic, they 
can't really tell Dumbledore to not let him use it while he's at 
Hogwarts or on "official Hogwarts business," much as they might like 
to.

The journey to the giants is not, however, Hogwarts business - it's 
Order business.
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