[HPforGrownups] Evil Fat Lady!! (well, not really) and spying art

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 59150

Nellie wrote:

I bet the Fat Lady is evil!  (There's been Molly-is-evil speculation,
why not this?)  She was still the door keeper (is that the correct
name?) of Gryffindor when MWPP were attending Hogwarts.  So when
Sirius tried to get in the dormitory, why did he slash her?  He must
have remembered her, and she most likely had some recollection of him.
So he had become unrecognizable from his years in Azkaban, but I'm
sure that there was something that he could have said to make her
remember him, along the lines of "Hey, remember that night, in '76?
When that young hooligan by the name of Sirius woke you up at three in
the morning, covered in hex marks and goo?  Let me in, please, I'm
tired and cold and nearly dead and I just need a place to rest for a
*few minutes* and its not like anyone's in there, they're all at the
feast..."  I know he probably wasn't the sanest sounding person, but I
think she didn't let him in because she was protecting Pettigrew!
He probably transforms at night and goes out and chats with the Fat
Lady, telling her the sad sad story of his life.  Or she was a
Voldemort sympathizer from the beginning, and instrumental in
getting Peter to betray Lilly and James...  She
just claims that she didnt let him because he didn't have the
password, and who would question it?

Kelly (me) writes:

Re:  the Fat Lady not letting Sirius in.  Maybe he did try to tell her who
he was and asked if she would let him in, hoping she would because he was an
ex-Gryffindor.  Thing is, I don't think it works that way.  I think that a
person does not get into a House common room unless s/he can give the proper
password.  Simple as that.  Otherwise, what's to stop Draco from polyjuicing
himself into Harry and expecting to be let in to the Gryffindor common room
simply because he looks like Harry?  The Fat Lady doesn't even let in
Neville without the password, even though she knows who he is and that he is
forgetful.  I believe this is done as an extra security precaution, to
prevent polyjuiced people and other imposters from getting into places they
shouldn't be in.  Sirius, being more or less fresh out of Azkaban after 12
years, did not take kindly to her refusals to let her in, and that, coupled
with his desperation to get Peter before Peter got Harry, made him lose it
and take it out on her.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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